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England | Estate pays nearly £28,000 for over abstracting water

Barbour EHS

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Ilchester Estate (Dorset) paid a Variable Monetary Penalty of £19,777.69 plus £8,298.60 costs for over-abstracting 7,500 m³ of water from the Dorset Frome between December 2022 and July 2023, exceeding its 66.6 m³/day licence and ignoring EA warnings and an application process.

– Accurate at time of publication | February 2025

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