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14-01-2023, 09:27 AM
Jane Dalton
Sat, 14 January 2023 at 6:08 am SGT
A water company has been fined more than £500,000 after it failed to stop raw sewage being discharged into a river for nearly 24 hours, killing 5,000 fish.
Around six million litres of raw sewage – the equivalent of more than two Olympic swimming pools - was discharged into the River Great Ouse at Brackley, Northamptonshire, because of a malfunction of Anglian Water systems.
Electrical faults caused pumps to stop just before 6pm on 24 May 2017, causing the discharge from an emergency overflow at a pumping station.
But a failure of the early warning alarm system, which should have alerted staff to a problem, meant it went unnoticed.
The discharge was not stopped until around 5pm the next day - 23 hours later.
Full report at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/water-company-...31096.html
Sat, 14 January 2023 at 6:08 am SGT
A water company has been fined more than £500,000 after it failed to stop raw sewage being discharged into a river for nearly 24 hours, killing 5,000 fish.
Around six million litres of raw sewage – the equivalent of more than two Olympic swimming pools - was discharged into the River Great Ouse at Brackley, Northamptonshire, because of a malfunction of Anglian Water systems.
Electrical faults caused pumps to stop just before 6pm on 24 May 2017, causing the discharge from an emergency overflow at a pumping station.
But a failure of the early warning alarm system, which should have alerted staff to a problem, meant it went unnoticed.
The discharge was not stopped until around 5pm the next day - 23 hours later.
Full report at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/water-company-...31096.html
