Welsh Water’s daily sewage spills into Herefordshire brook ‘illegal’

Sewage treatment works take raw sewage to produce effluent that can be safely discharged into local waterways.

According to the EA, all storm overflows at sewage treatment works now have event duration monitors with the data relayed online, enabling it to hold water companies to account.

Welsh Water was prosecuted for excessive sewage discharge from its Clehonger Sewage Treatment Works last July and was fined £24,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £12,000.

David Gillam, chairman of campaign group Save the Wye Coalition, said: “It’s not clear to us from Welsh Water’s response how they mean to prevent the spillage.

“Will it simply go on and on?”