Yorkshire Water to Pay £2.35m for River Pollution
Yorkshire Water will pay £2.35m after sewage pollution incidents, funding river, wetland and floodplain recovery across ...
Yorkshire Water will pay £2.35 million after seven separate pollution incidents led to unauthorised sewage discharges into rivers and watercourses across the region. The Environment Agency said the incidents took place between 2019 and 2023 and affected the Ure, Dearne, Aire and Calder, bringing another sharp reminder of how wastewater failures travel far beyond a single asset. The regulator has accepted seven enforcement undertakings from the company. In practice, that means the money will go straight into environmental repair through local charities, while the company is also required to correct the failures behind the pollution.
The settlement forms part of a much larger rise in enforcement payments from the water sector. Government figures show water companies paid a record £8.5 million into environmental restoration projects across England under this route, up from £5.8 million the year before and from just under £2 million in the 2023/24 financial year. That increase...