Bosses have apologised for the licence breach and a £3 million donation to local environmental improvement projects has been made
United Utilities has been fined £800,000 for taking too much water out of the ground from boreholes. The Environment Agency said taking water from a surface or underground source is called abstraction, with a licence needed to take more than 20,000 litres a day.
The agency said United Utilities Water Limited was fined at Warrington magistrates' court on Tuesday after illegally abstracting 22 billion litres of water from boreholes in Lancashire - enough to fill 8,800 Olympic swimming pools. The water company was also ordered by a district judge to pay court costs of more than £41,000.
"The case was brought after an investigation by the Environment Agency revealed that United Utilities had taken more water than allowed by five of their abstraction licences in the in the Franklaw and Broughton Borehole Complex." "While water companies are allowed to abstract water from the environment, over abstraction, especially during times of prolonged dry weather, has damaging impacts to our environment.
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