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29/09/2015
North Yorkshire Pub Fined For Polluting Waterway
A north Yorkshire pub has been fined £150,000 for polluting a watercourse in Teeside.
The Environment Agency prosecuted the Spirit Pub Company Ltd, owners of the Cross Keys Inn in Guisborough, after investigations revealed that sewage was not being treated effectively before being discharged.
The inn has an environmental permit which exists to allow the hotel to discharge treated sewage effluent into a stream. The permit contains conditions to ensure the stream is protected from environmental harm.
An investigation was launched when a brown, foamy effluent was seen running into the stream, which is a tributary of the River Leven, and there were solid waste particles present in the water and around the outfall.
Representatives of the company appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Friday 25 September, where they pleaded guilty and were sentenced for two charges of breaching conditions of the permit and one charge of not sufficiently maintaining the sewage treatment works.
The company was fined £50,000 for each of the three offences, and has to pay costs of £4,596 and a victim surcharge of £120 – a total of £154,716.
The Environment Agency's Jackie Frank said: "There appears to have been no monitoring of the sewage plant between the three-monthly service visits and no visual checks on the outfall.
"When our investigations found that the treatment works were discharging inadequately treated sewage into the stream we told the company to take immediate action, but no steps were taken to make any improvements to the situation.
"There were no proper systems in place to monitor and maintain the performance of the works and their emergency procedures failed."
(MH/LM)
The Environment Agency prosecuted the Spirit Pub Company Ltd, owners of the Cross Keys Inn in Guisborough, after investigations revealed that sewage was not being treated effectively before being discharged.
The inn has an environmental permit which exists to allow the hotel to discharge treated sewage effluent into a stream. The permit contains conditions to ensure the stream is protected from environmental harm.
An investigation was launched when a brown, foamy effluent was seen running into the stream, which is a tributary of the River Leven, and there were solid waste particles present in the water and around the outfall.
Representatives of the company appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Friday 25 September, where they pleaded guilty and were sentenced for two charges of breaching conditions of the permit and one charge of not sufficiently maintaining the sewage treatment works.
The company was fined £50,000 for each of the three offences, and has to pay costs of £4,596 and a victim surcharge of £120 – a total of £154,716.
The Environment Agency's Jackie Frank said: "There appears to have been no monitoring of the sewage plant between the three-monthly service visits and no visual checks on the outfall.
"When our investigations found that the treatment works were discharging inadequately treated sewage into the stream we told the company to take immediate action, but no steps were taken to make any improvements to the situation.
"There were no proper systems in place to monitor and maintain the performance of the works and their emergency procedures failed."
(MH/LM)
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