Wessex Water - Environmental Record

Environmental Record

• May 1998 - Found guilty of discharging over 1 million gallons of raw sewage into a Weymouth, Dorset, marina on August Bank Holiday Monday 1997, the busiest day of the year. The company was fined £5,000 with £500 costs.
• March 1999 - Ranked 4th in the top ten list of "worst polluters" in England by the Environment Agency.
• May 2002 - Fined £8,000 for causing pollution in Dowlais Brook, Cwmbran in June 2001.
• April 2003 - Fined £5,000 woth £1,000 costs at Minehead Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to causing poisonous, noxious or polluting matter to enter the Washford River in Somerset.
• July 2003 - Described by the Environment Agency as one of the worst "repeat offenders" for pollution incidents.
• 2004 - Fined six times for environmental pollution incidents.
• May 2007 - Fined £1,500 with £1,589 costs by Bristol magistrates after pleading guilty to one offence under the Water Resources Act 1991 of causing sewage to enter controlled waters. Untreated sewage had been allowed to pollute the River Frome in July 2006. The river was polluted again with untreated sewage at Frampton Cotterell in February 2007 and April 2007.
• April 2008 - Fined £3,000 with £1,960 costs for allowing sewage to pollute the River Stour.
• March 2010 - Fined £6,000 with £2,235 costs at Weymouth Magistrates' Court after allowing sewage to pollute the River Stour near Shaftesbury in March 2009.