Monthly Archives: October 2012

New invasive shrimp found in Thames – Check, Clean and Dry

Environment Agency Stakeholder Brief: New shrimp found on Thames (31st October 2012) The shrimp, Dikerogammarus haemobaphes, which is a relative of the ‘killer shrimp’, has been found on the River Thames between Romney lock (Windsor) and Bell Weir lock (Staines). Photo … Continue reading

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Farmer fined £15k after hundreds of fish died in pollution incident

Hundreds of fish died when 13.5kms of river was polluted by liquid fertiliser, Grantham magistrates heard. Robert Grindal, trading as CJ Grindal, was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £6,761 after pleading guilty to causing the pollution, … Continue reading

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Severn Trent Water fined £20,000 for polluting brook with Raw Sewage

Severn Trent Water Limited have pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court to one charge of breaching a condition of their Environmental Permit when discharging raw sewage into  to a tributary of the Ley Brook in Huntley, Gloucestershire The company was … Continue reading

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Top EU court finds Britain guilty of dumping sewage into Waterways

Britain faces large fines for breaching European Union law on water treatment after plants in northern England and London dumped raw sewage into waterways, the European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday.

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Anglian Water to pay almost £42,000 for polluting River Chelmer

  More than 400 fish died when 3km of river was polluted with sewage and trade effluent, Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard on Tuesday .  Services pleaded guilty to causing the pollution, which came from a combined sewer overflow in Thaxted, … Continue reading

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EA report shows River flows in the normal range for September

The Environment Agency Southeast water report for September shows the rivers responded to the heavy rainfall, but flows declined at the end of the month,the region received average rainfall for September. Rainfall Although September recorded average rainfall, it was a … Continue reading

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Thames Water ordered to pay over £13,000 for polluting the Bishopswood Stream

Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water) was fined £6000 at Basingstoke Magistrates Court for polluting the Bishopswood Stream in Tadley on or before 6 March 2011. The company was also ordered to pay the Prosecution costs of £7,293 and a … Continue reading

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Severn Trent Water fined £25000 for polluting the Elmbridge Brook

On 4 October, Severn Trent Water Ltd pleaded guilty at Redditch Magistrates’ Court to discharge of sewage into the Elmbridge Brook at Fairfield, near Bromsgrove, without an environmental permit. The company was fined £25,000, and ordered to pay £5262.26 in … Continue reading

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Environment Agency wages war on Hampshire poachers

The Environment Agency has announced a major crackdown on poaching across all of Hampshire’s rivers, streams and estuaries following a recent increase in fish theft and illegal angling. From the 1st October, specialist Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers will be … Continue reading

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