Two water firms fined for sewage spill pollution

摘要

The courts were kept busy in December dealing with offences by water firms.Thames Water was handed a £24,000 bill on 14 December after a sewage spill a year earlier killed hundreds offish in Hampshire. The company had allowed untreated sewage to enter Arford stream and lakes.On 5 December 2010, the Environment Agency was informed of dead fish in the lakes. The company confirmed that an incident had begun three days earlier at its Arford pumping station near Farnham.