Record £90m fine for Southern Water following EA prosecution.
5% of profits during the period. An incentive to rectify problems or just a business expense?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-90m-fine-for-southern-water-following-ea-prosecution
6,971 illegal spills between January 2010 and December 2015 across 17 sites in Kent, West Sussex and Hampshire.
168 previous convictions and cautions.
£2.7m fines in three separate but similar cases since August 2013.
Wastewater discharged at hundreds of litres per second with a total of 16 to 21 billion litres pumped into the sea, the equivalent of 7,400 Olympic swimming pools. https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-07-09/southern-water-fined-90-million-over-sewage-spills
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/09/southern-water-fined-90m-for-deliberately-pouring-sewage-into-sea
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-90m-fine-for-southern-water-following-ea-prosecution
6,971 illegal spills between January 2010 and December 2015 across 17 sites in Kent, West Sussex and Hampshire.
168 previous convictions and cautions.
£2.7m fines in three separate but similar cases since August 2013.
Wastewater discharged at hundreds of litres per second with a total of 16 to 21 billion litres pumped into the sea, the equivalent of 7,400 Olympic swimming pools. https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-07-09/southern-water-fined-90-million-over-sewage-spills
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/09/southern-water-fined-90m-for-deliberately-pouring-sewage-into-sea
