Major Pollution By Sewage

[Elton]

Raw sewage escaped from an Anglian Water overflow pipe causing a major pollution of the River Ore near Framlingham, Suffolk killing thousands of leeches, hundreds of sticklebacks and unknown numbers of roach and eels.

 

The Environment Agency told Lowestoft magistrates that the river was unlikely to recover for months, if not years, and the effect on the ecology could also have a longer term effect on other wildlife such as otters and voles, which are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and which rely on good water quality.

 

More details here:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/News/river_ore_pollution.html

[chesters1]

NOOOOO anglian waters customers pay

perhaps if the fines were paid by the staff then it may just not happen again and 18 grand probably not more than they spend on "entertaining" for a week ,make it a million for every offence minimum

Edited February 21, 2008 by chesters1

[BoldBear]

NOOOOO anglian waters customers pay

perhaps if the fines were paid by the staff then it may just not happen again and 18 grand probably not more than they spend on "entertaining" for a week ,make it a million for every offence minimum

 

I agree, not much of a deterrent is it! (£18,000 ).

 

We got £22,000 about 15 years ago plus £2,000 per year to pay for getting the water tested each year by Bernice Brewster etc. when our small estate lake was polluted by 'Blood Products' in Elstree; after we threatened to bring it to the publics attention and get it raised in parliament by our local MP as well as receiving help from the ACA. 'Blood Products' had done it several times in the previous years. It was far cheaper for them to regularly pay out that sort of money to us than it would cost them to take their waste away via tankers etc. Fortunately we no longer have pollution from them since they re-directed their outlet pipe around our lake several years ago; instead of into the inlet stream, and they also dug a settling pond on their land.

 

So £18,000 is peanuts and not much of a deterrent at all these days; from a company like Anglian Water.

 

The only problem is that as chesters1 says; they would just pass it on to their customers, so perhaps there should be personal liability insurance which would be denyed to them if they continued to do it? then the directors would be personally liable to pay fines and compensation?.

Edited February 22, 2008 by BoldBear