Environment Agency | Investigations by the Environment Agency into water pollution incidents in the West Midlands have seen Severn Trent Water Limited contribute £2,277,424 million to countryside charities.
This money is now supporting projects in the region after two Enforcement Undertakings (EU) were completed by the Environment Agency.
Severn Trent contributed over £1.8 million to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust who are working on projects including the Severn Treescapes project, helping to plant and restore trees at a number of sites.
Another countryside charity to benefit is Severn Rivers Trust who are receiving £450,000.
Severn Trent will also cover the Environment Agency’s costs and carry out actions to stop offending, prevent a recurrence and/or restore any harm.
An Enforcement Undertaking is available to the Environment Agency as a sanction for dealing with some environmental offences.
The investigations have ended in the Environment Agency accepting EUs from Severn Trent for the two incidents which brought illegal sewage discharges into watercourses.
Incidents and payments:
- £1.5 million to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust for two unauthorised sewage discharges from Blackminster Wastewater Treatment Works, Evesham, Worcestershire. These occurred on 12 June 2022 and 20 August 2022 into Broadway Brook.
- £327,424 to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust for failing to comply with a permit for levels of ammonia in effluent at Cheltenham (Hayden) Wastewater Treatment Works, Hayden Lane, on or before 13 September 2021.
- £450,000 to Severn Rivers Trust from the same incident at Cheltenham (Hayden).
