Thames Water fined £10,000 after 10-month oil leak

Thames Water was fined £10,000 on 27 January 2005 for polluting the Stanford Brook in Surrey with gas oil, after a leak went undiscovered for up to five months.

The water company pleaded guilty to allowing 1,200 litres of oil to leach into the brook from Hockford sewage works. The oil affected over a kilometre of the brook as far as Rickford Mill near Worplesdon, breaching the Water Resources Act 1991.

Background

On 17 July 2004 officers from the Environment Agency were called out after a... (356 more words)

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