Judge fines Thames Water £2m over river pollution
by Press Association from Environment | The Guardian on (#45G48)
Utilities firm breached environmental regulations over raw sewage flowing into a brook in the Cotswolds
Thames Water has been handed a 2m fine for a "reckless failure" that led to the polluting of a tributary of the Thames with raw sewage.
The 2bn-turnover utilities firm admitted breaching environmental regulations in relation to untreated sewage flowing into a brook near Milton-under-Wychwood, near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds, in August 2015.
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