In addition, Southern Water admitted breaches across three days from 5 March 2020 where untreated sewage was dumped into Faversham Creek after a wastewater station’s pumps stopped working.<\/p>\n
Swalecliffe Brook was also hit on the same day, with sewage carried into the sea, while another “almost identical incident” took place in October 2020, said the regulator.<\/p>\n
Dawn Theaker, the EA’s water industry regulation manager in the South East, said: “All of these pollution incidents could have been avoided had operations been managed more carefully, with the necessary checks in place to deal with problems when they occurred.<\/p>\n
“It’s a familiar pattern with water companies – they’re always catching up with events.”<\/p>\n
She added that the EA would “keep Southern Water in its sights with more inspections, even tougher regulation and prosecution in the most serious cases”.<\/p>\n
Southern Water will be sentenced at Medway Magistrates’ Court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition, Southern Water admitted breaches across three days from 5 March 2020 where untreated sewage was dumped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555300","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\/555300","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=555300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}