07 Jun 2023
Wessex Water has been hit with a £280,000 fine after it provided customers with undrinkable water for three weeks. The company has also agreed to pay out more than £21,000 to its affected customers. The fine was handed down by Swindon Magistrates following prosecution by the Drinking Water Inspectorate.
17 Nov 2022
Article from the Water Industry Journal Constructed wetlands could successfully deliver a natural alternative to chemically treating wastewater before it is returned to the environment, according to the pioneering project by Wessex Water. The company’s unique 0.8 hectare wetland site at Cromhall Water Recycling Centre started operating last year to ensure water quality and ecology in […]
17 Feb 2022
Defra ‘Farmers take ownership of nitrogen targets in Dorset’s Poole Harbour Farmers in Dorset’s Poole Harbour catchment are aiming to become some of the most nitrogen efficient in the UK. Poole Harbour is designated as a Special Protection Area (SPA), Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Ramsar site. But an increase in nutrients entering […]
27 Mar 2019
WWTOnline A group of farmers in Dorset have been equally rewarded by Wessex Water for growing cover crops that brought reductions in the levels of nitrates that enter Poole Harbour. ‘The work to protect the site came as the result of a first-of-its-kind uniform price scheme by online environmental trading platform EnTrade. The new scheme, […]
10 Dec 2018
Wessex Water has offered to pay £975,000 to achieve equivalent environmental benefits following a series of sewage spills in Swanage Bay, Dorset. The company also offered £25,000 compensation to Swanage RNLI Lifeboat Station as an impacted third party, taking the total pay-out to £1 million. The payment follows illegal spills in 2016 and 2017 when […]
11 Apr 2018
Wessex Water have an online platform (EnTrade) with which farmers can bid for money in return for adopting more sustainable farming practices. This system directly reduces the cost of water purification for the Water Company, acts as an incentive for good practice to the landowner, and provides landscape and wildlife benefits for the local population – a […]
15 Feb 2018
A total of £260 million will be spent in the next financial year on schemes that will safeguard and improve water and sewerage services, including completion of our vast new water supply grid. As part of the grid project, we’re building a 200km (124 miles) water supply pipe from the south of our region in […]
05 May 2016
A pioneering new trial for permits at sewage treatment works has been agreed with the Environment Agency and Wessex Water. The Bristol Avon catchment-wide permitting trial has been officially signed off, prompted by the need to reduce levels of phosphorus being discharged from sewage works into the River Avon to meet the requirements of the […]