Article 6CQDS Sydney Water fined over discharge of 16m litres of raw sewage in northern suburb

Sydney Water fined over discharge of 16m litres of raw sewage in northern suburb

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State-owned corporation expressed genuine remorse' over the spill in a Naremburn creek in October 2020

The discharge of about 16m litres of raw sewage into a northern Sydney suburb has resulted in a fine of more than $365,000.

After a sewerage system owned and run by Sydney Water partially collapsed, sewage containing urine and faeces backed up and overflowed at Naremburn in late October 2020.

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