{"id":529244,"date":"2026-04-13T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529244\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:00:27","slug":"welsh-waters-daily-sewage-spills-into-herefordshire-brook-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529244\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Water&#8217;s daily sewage spills into Herefordshire brook &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sewage treatment works take raw sewage to produce effluent that can be safely discharged into local waterways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh Water was prosecuted for excessive sewage discharge from its Clehonger Sewage Treatment Works <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c89e3jn8v1wo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last July<\/a> and was fined \u00a324,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly \u00a312,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Gillam, chairman of campaign group Save the Wye Coalition, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not clear to us from Welsh Water&#8217;s response how they mean to prevent the spillage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Will it simply go on and on?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sewage treatment works take raw sewage to produce effluent that can be safely discharged into local waterways. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-529244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}