The cash will be given to the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust following an unauthorised crude sewage discharge into Kirk Bridge Dike and the River Don in Sheffield in April 2020.

Yorkshire Water also agreed to cover the Environment Agency’s investigation costs and to replace the sensor on the telemetry equipment at Darnall Road Combined Sewer Overflow to ensure they are made aware of any further issues.

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    4 months ago

    In other words, the government has set a nice and affordable price for dumping raw sewerage in our waterways, and have provided absolutely no reason for the companies to stop (since it’d cost them more to find and implement an alternative than it would to just keep paying these laughable fines).