ROYSTON-based company JK Environmental has been fined £2,500 for polluting a tributary with contaminated waste liquid. The company admitted that a wastewater tanker discharged it contents directly into a watercourse near Wilburton. The prosecution by the
ROYSTON-based company JK Environmental has been fined £2,500 for polluting a tributary with contaminated waste liquid.
The company admitted that a wastewater tanker discharged it contents directly into a watercourse near Wilburton.
The prosecution by the Environment Agency was under the Water Resources Act 1991.
Ely magistrates were told that two members of the public had seen a tanker discharging a dark coloured liquid into the watercourse on November 17 last year.
Agency officers said the discharge had a pollution strength of between three and four times of raw, untreated sewage.
Phil Henderson, agency senior environment officer, said after the case: "The offence was committed deliberately by an employee."
JK Environmental, of Orchard Road, was also ordered to pay £3,083 costs.
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