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Severn Trent Water fined for dumping untreated sewage into the River Leadon

On 15 November 2012, Severn Trent Water Ltd pleaded guilty at Hereford Magistrates’ Court to polluting the River Leadon, a high quality salmon and trout watercourse, by discharging untreated sewage from their Ledbury sewage treatment works. The company was fined … 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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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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Severn Trent Water fined for repeated pollution of fishing lake

Severn Trent Water Ltd has been fined £24,000 after polluting Heapham fishing lake in Gainsborough for the fourth time in seven years. Hundreds of fish died in April 2011 when a blockage in the foul sewer was not cleared for … Continue reading

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Fish Legal win battle in 3 year war for water industry transparency

The Angling Trust's legal arm Fish Legal has won an important victory in its campaign to make England and Wales' biggest polluters come clean about what they put into our rivers, lakes and seas, as well as what they pump … Continue reading

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