United Utilities has been fined £400k for what was described as a ‘ catastrophic failure’ in an incident at the firm’s Stockport Waste Treatment Works.

Severn Trent has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay £10,267.05 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge, for pollution of the Messingham Reservoir.

Northumbrian Water Ltd has been fined a total of £30,000 for two sewage pollution incidents that happened last year, one of which was partly due to monitoring equipment failure.

Severn Trent Water Limited pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates’ Court yesterday to polluting the Pudding Brook in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire with untreated sewage.

Scottish Water was fined £6,000at Stirling Sheriff Court yesterday for causing untreated sewage to enter the Dragon Burn.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency, South West Water has been ordered to pay £35,937 in fines and costs for a series of sewage spills at Hope Cove in South Devon.

A Stirling abattoir operator has been fined a total of £26,250 for allowing effluent to pollute a local burn.

Tenbury Wells based food manufacturer Kerry Ingredients (UK) Limited has been fined £12,000 for making illegal discharges into Severn Trent Water’s sewer network. The company has also been ordered to pay costs of over £30,000.

Scottish Water was fined £10,000 at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday for two pollution incidents in 2011 in Clackmannanshire that, between them, resulted in the pollution of the River Devon and the Goudnie Burn.

Worcester Magistrates’ Court has ordered A&A Rodenhurst Ltd of Wadborough to pay £57,000 in fines and costs for the repeated pollution of a local watercourse bordering their premises at Wadborough Park Farm, Worcestershire.