US EditionWelsh Water fined £1.35m for more than 800 sewage discharge permit breaches
- Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water pleaded guilty on October 16, 2024, at Llandudno Magistrates' Court to over 800 sewage discharge permit breaches across Wales and Herefordshire.
- These breaches followed significant declines in monitoring quality reported in 2020 due to internal restructuring, IT scheduling issues, and the Covid-19 pandemic, with some data missing and concerns about environmental impact.
- Natural Resources Wales described the case as landmark, noting Dŵr Cymru's downgrade from an industry-leading four-star rating in 2020 to a two-star rating in 2022 and 2023 amid worsening environmental performance.
- NRW Head of Operations Siân Williams stated, "This case highlights inadequacies in Dur Cymru's systems" and emphasized that better contingency planning could have avoided widespread breaches.
- The company was fined £1.35 million and ordered to pay £70,237.70 in costs, with NRW warning it will continue enforcement to ensure future compliance and improvements.
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Landmark case sees Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water fined £1.35m for over 800 breaches to sewage discharge permits - Water Magazine
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has been fined £1,350,000 and ordered to pay £70,237.70 costs after pleading guilty to over 800 breaches of its environmental permits to discharge sewage. The charges relate to Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s self-monitoring data submitted to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) as part of its 2020 and 2021 annual reports. Due to the volume of non-compliances, the charges were summarised into 18 offences for the court’s benefit. Since 201…
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