Construction company fined for water pollution
20 February 2017
Discharging silt-laden water into a Sussex river has cost Interserve Construction almost £60,000.
The firm had been contracted by South East Water to improve management of water treatment at its Crowhurst Bridge works.
However, on 1 October 2014 the Environment Agency discovered a brown discharge downstream of the site after a member of the public reported seeing discoloured water. Further investigations ...