The Environment Agency has prosecuted United Utilities over a serious water pollution incident.

United Utilities Water PLC was fined £12,000 at Wigan Magistrates Court last week for allowing untreated sewage to enter the River Douglas, Wigan.  The company was also ordered to pay the Environment Agency’s costs of  £1,944.36.

Scottish Water pled guilty yesterday at Oban Sheriff Court after sewage was allowed to spill into Tobermory Bay, and were fined £6,667.

Scottish Water has been fined £5,000 after failing to comply with their licence to discharge sewage effluent from Durris Sewage Treatment Works into the Durris burn, and failing to comply with an improvement notice.

The Court of Appeal has reduced a fine imposed on Thames Water for spilling sodium hypochlorite into the River Wandle in September 2007 during cleaning at Beddington sewage plant  which killed 7,000 fish.

Northern Ireland Water Ltd (NI Water) was fined £3,000 plus £31 court costs at Newry Magistrates’ Court on Monday for pollution offences. Last week the company received fines totalling £3,500 for two separate offences – both for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

Thames Water Utilities Ltd was ordered to pay £12,323 by Bracknell Magistrates Court on Wednesday for causing the pollution of a tributary of the River Thames twice within the space of two years.

Southern Water has been fined £3,000 after it admitted polluting 2km of a Sussex stream with raw sewage, killing up to a hundred brown trout and devastating the fish population for the second time in five years.

Scottish Water was fined £1,700 on Tuesday this week after a Perth burn was polluted with discharge from a combined sewer overflow.

Scottish Water was fined £12,000 was yesterday after they failed to comply with their licence to discharge sewage effluent into the Torry burn.