{"id":9702,"date":"2025-07-20T05:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9702\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:42:16","slug":"welsh-water-fined-after-sewage-plant-near-hereford-breaches-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9702\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Water fined after sewage plant near Hereford breaches permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A water firm has been ordered to pay \u00a336,000 in fines and costs after breaking the conditions of an environmental permit at a sewage treatment works seven times in five months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) said Welsh Water exceeded permitted levels of ammonia at Clehonger Sewage Treatment Works near Hereford between 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm was fined \u00a324,000 and ordered to pay costs of \u00a311,835.86, as well as a surcharge of \u00a3181, at Kidderminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam Shipp, EA senior environment officer, said after the hearing that such incidents were &#8220;preventable and are completely unacceptable&#8221;. Welsh Water said the court accepted there was no evidence of environmental harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water firm has been ordered to pay \u00a336,000 in fines and costs after breaking the conditions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-9702","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\/9702","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=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}