Building company fined £15,000 for polluting river

A housebuilding company has been fined £15,000 for allowing silt to enter a ditch tributary of the River Lee and the River Lee, in Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire.
Rialto Homes Ltd pleaded guilty at Harlow Magistrates' Court and was ordered to pay a fine of £15,000 and the Environment Agency's costs of £1,664.38, after it breached the Water Resources Act 1991, allowing silt to pollute the tributary and the river on 11 March 2004.
With the construction site located on the floodplain, Rialto... (164 more words)

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