{"id":542948,"date":"2026-04-21T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:18:28","slug":"yorkshire-water-to-pay-out-2-35m-over-pollution-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542948\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Water to pay out \u00a32.35m over pollution incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to the funding, Yorkshire Water has carried out remedial actions at each site, including repairing and upgrading infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company will also pay all of the EA&#8217;s investigation costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacqui Tootill, Water Industry Regulation Manager in Yorkshire, said: &#8220;While we continue to prosecute and sanction the most serious offences, enforcement undertakings allow companies to put right what went wrong and channel money directly into the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This \u00a32.35m will be invested back into the local area to enhance the environment, delivering real benefits for people and wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Yorkshire Water spokesperson said: &#8220;Unfortunately, there are instances where things go wrong and we take responsibility to make it right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We always cooperate fully with investigations, and sometimes these can lead to us giving enforcement undertakings to the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As part of these undertakings, compensation is provided to local charities so improvements can be made to benefit our local environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have seen compensation from past undertakings deliver real improvements for local initiatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to the funding, Yorkshire Water has carried out remedial actions at each site, including repairing and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542948","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=542948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}