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Article: Firm fined for polluting river ; A company has been ordered to pay pounds3,000 in fines and costs for discharging poor quality effluent from a private sewage treatment plant at Dunchideock, near Exeter.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2008
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A company has been ordered to pay pounds3,000 in fines and costs
for discharging poor quality effluent from a private sewage
treatment plant at Dunchideock, near Exeter.
Magistrates heard there had been a long history of problems at
the Sidelong Close Treatment Works, Dunchideock, that culminated in
the owners, A&H Gadd Ltd being prosecuted by the Environment Agency
in June, 2007.
The problems dated from 1999 when the treatment plant was
installed to serve a new housing development of 23 properties and
included a serious pollution incident in 2006 and repeated breaches
in the site's discharge consent.
The works discharges ...