Water company ordered to pay £41,000 after polluting 'special' river

Severn Trent Water Limited has pleaded guilty at Worcester Magistrates Court to three charges of allowing sewage effluent to leak into the River Teme, a site of special scientific interest.

The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Water Resources Act (1991). Severn Trent Water was fined £34,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,000.

For the Environment Agency, Jonathon Salmon told the court that Tenbury Wells has a mixture of combined and totally separate... (293 more words)

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