From the Guardian A criminal investigation into water companies in England has uncovered suspected widespread illegal sewage discharges from treatment plants, the Environment Agency has revealed. The investigation into more than 2,200 water treatment plants run by all 10 water companies is examining whether the firms breached legal regulations about when and how frequently they are allowed to release […]

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Sewage flooding a river for hours was blamed on Anglian Water’s slow response to the incident. The company has been fined £18,000 for failures at a pumping station near Peterborough that an investigation said showed up their “reactive attitude” to pollution. District judge Ken Sheraton said Anglian Water should have given “a higher category of […]

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The Environment Agency has published their responses to both the Nature Recovery Green Paper & Environment Act-Environmental Targets consultations. Nature Recovery Green Paper  Some of the key issues in the Green paper for the Environment Agency for the water and marine environment include the following, amongst others: Protecting wildlife sites – on land and at […]

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The Environment Agency has begun work to make it easier for fish and eels to swim up and down the River Frome in Yate, north Bristol. Four weirs on the stretch of river running through Yate are being modified. A small notch is being cut into 3 of the weirs, and eel tiles and baffles […]

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Environment Agency research and analysis on water quality looks at what 3 future environmental land management schemes can achieve by 2027 The Environment Agency has estimated the pollution reductions from voluntary land management and land use change until 2027. The following future environmental land management schemes are one group of a wider set of schemes […]

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Between 2015 and 2021 government invested £2.6 billion into a flood and coastal defence programme for England. Capital investment into flood and coastal erosion risk management is crucial to achieve government’s long-term ambition to create a nation more resilient to future flood and coastal erosion risk. This report sets out: some of the key headlines […]

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From the Guardian Water companies discharged raw sewage into English rivers 372,533 times last year, a slight reduction on the previous year. The water companies covering England released untreated sewage for a combined total of more than 2.7m hours; compared with 3.1m hours in 2020, according to data released by the Environment Agency (EA) on […]

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