Northern Ireland Water was fined £4,000 by magistrates on Monday for breaching the conditions of a discharge consent relating to the operation of  its Flynn’s Waste Water Pumping Station.

Southern Water has apologised for a pollution incident after pumps failed at its Brook Road Pumping Station in Swalecliffe, Kent, resulting in the imposition of a £500,000 fine in court yesterday.

During the past four years Thames Water, together with the Environment Agency, has traced 410 misconnections into Mayes brook – but  predict there are at least another 60,000 misconnections still to be found.

Thames Water has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £7,000 at Reading Crown Court for polluting Chase Brook in Newbury, Berkshire.

Scottish Water was fined £6,500 at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday for allowing chlorinated water to discharge from a reservoir into an Alva Burn, resulting in the death of over 1,000 fish.

Wolverhampton based Global Metal Finishers Limited has been fined £55,000 for making illegal discharges into Severn Trent Water’s sewer network.  The company has also been ordered to pay costs of nearly £9,000.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency this week, Severn Trent Water has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £2,659.63 in costs for polluting a Notthinghamshire watercourse.

Northern Ireland Water Limited (NIW) was fined £10,000 at Armagh Magistrates Court last Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of making a polluting discharge from its Tandragee Wastewater Treatment Works in Co Armagh.

Anglian Water has been fined £50,000 and required to pay £44,000 in costs after sewage contaminated a brook through an emergency overflow pipe killing more than 1,500 fish.

South West Water has been fined £150K for sewage pollution by Truro Crown Court and described by the Judge as “guilty of negligence.”