Welsh Water Ltd is found to have breached the legal waste limit three times in a 12 month period.
Welsh Water Ltd was fined £90,00 after the Environment Agency found sewage levels near Hereford exceeded the legal limit three times in one year in 2020 and 2021.
On 19 June 2021 levels were recorded at 41milligrams per litre despite the legal limit being 7 milligrams per litre.A report concluded that this showed “either poor operational management, inadequate asset provision or a mixture of both.” Adam Shipp, for the Environment Agency who led the investigation, said: "Incidents like this are preventable and are completely unacceptable.
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