One of the UK’s biggest water companies has been hit with a £150,000 fine after sewage was released into a river, in the first civil sanction of its kind in England. In 2018 contractors unblocked a sewer in Yielden in Bedfordshire which caused a small rural water recycling Centre to become overwhelmed and resulted in […]
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Rivers polluted by “reckless” Thames Water, fined £3.33m after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded river
Judge – Thames Water “deliberately misled” the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died. Thames Water has been fined £3.33m after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded 2 rivers near Gatwick. Judge Christine Laing KC DL told Lewes crown court Thames Water deliberately […]