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Property developer causes raw sewage to pump into County Durham beck
The company pleaded guilty after debris blocked a sewer and polluted a stream, with officials tracing red-coloured liquid 1.5km downstream.
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House builder fined £300k for sewage spill
Taylor Wimpey UK has been fined £300,000 after construction debris blocked a sewer and sent raw sewage spilling into a County Durham stream. The pollution entered a tributary of Shotton Beck while the developer was building new homes at Eden Gardens in Sedgefield in September 2019. The discharge included red-coloured liquid thought to be blood-contaminated effluent from a nearby abattoir. Taylor Wimpey pleaded guilty in July 2023 to polluting th…
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