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Water company fined for polluting holiday beach
South West Water has been ordered to pay £35,937 in fines and costs for a series of sewage spills at Hope Cove in South Devon. The case was brought by the Environment Agency. A court heard how between September 2011 and December 2012 there were several incidents where sewage was seen escaping from manholes in a lane in front of Shippen Cottages and from a manhole at Outer Hope, upstream ...
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Water company fined for sewage spills at Devon holiday resort
South West Water has been ordered to pay £60,300 in fines and costs for polluting two beaches at Salcombe in South Devon. The case was brought by the Environment Agency. Sewage spills occurred in August 2012 during the Salcombe annual regatta. On August 6 the Agency responded to reports of pollution at South Sands. It found sewage leaking from a corroded inspection hatch and flowing down ...
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Northumbrian Water Ltd fined £10,000 for Ouse Burn pollution
Northumbrian Water Ltd was fined £10,000 at Newcastle Magistrates yesterday (24 September), for causing sewage pollution to a stretch of the Ouse Burn in Ponteland. Northumbrian Water Ltd, of Abbey Road, Pity Me, County Durham, was also told to pay costs of £3,802 to the Environment Agency, which brought the case. The company was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of ...
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U.S., West Virginia sue town of Fort Gay for violations of clean water and safe drinking water acts
The Justice Department and the West Virginia Departments of Environmental Protection, and Health and Human Resources have sued the town of Fort Gay, W. Va. to stop discharges of untreated sewage from pipes, manholes, and pumping stations into Mill Creek. The complaint, filed on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state agencies alleges the discharges pose a threat to human ...
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‘Inadequate Infrastructure’ Leading to Increased Sewage Overspills
Sewage overspills have been hitting the headlines with increasing frequency over the last few years, with raw waste discharged into rivers, lakes and streams across the UK and Ireland on a daily basis. This is permissible during periods of heavy rainfall, when the capacity of the combined sewage system (which was built by the Victorians) can be exceeded. This means that sewage works can ...
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Zimbabwe engulfed by sewage
To get to Sinikiwe MaKhumalo's doorstep in Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, visitors have to step on a thin plank perched precariously over a trench that prevents sewage from flowing into her house. The 57-year-old grandmother has endured this arrangement to access her home in the city's Old Magwegwe working class suburb for the past five months after a sewer burst close to her ...
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US EPA orders Marin County sewage systems to address `chronic` spills
The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued enforcement actions requiring nine sewage collection systems in the Sausalito and Mill Valley areas of southern Marin County, Calif. to address chronic sewage spills, improve sewer maintenance and implement long-term programs to renew aging sewer pipes. Deteriorated conditions of the sewer systems became evident when heavy rains overwhelmed the ...
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Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to upgrade sewer system to resolve clean water act violations
A settlement between the United States and the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, will resolve violations of the Clean Water Act and specifically violations of its Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permit, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. This is the first judicial action addressing violations of this type of permit. Arecibo’s ...
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Settlement with City of Wilmington, New Hanover County and Cape Fear Public Utility Authority will Reduce Sewer Overflows
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County and the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (Authority) in North Carolina. The proposed settlement set forth in a consent decree will resolve these parties’ liability for violations of the CWA, including unauthorized overflows of untreated raw ...
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Reading sewer main broken twice in three years
For the second time in just three years, a sewer main pipe in Reading, Pennsylvania, has ruptured, causing raw sewage to leak into the nearby Schuylkill River. 69 News reported that workers sent to fix the problem were forced to open an emergency gate, which sent the sewage flowing into the river. Not opening the gate would have eventually caused a backup of sewage into nearby resident’s ...
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Sewage Contamination Dangers Exposed in New Educational Video
Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. The video is about sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and the health hazards for building occupants exposed to the aftermath. Sanitary sewer overflows happen every day across the nation. When they occur they can spread raw sewage into basements and out of manholes and cause ...
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San Diego to Spend $1 Billion for Sewage System Upgrades
SAN DIEGO, California, July 31, 2007 (ENS) - The city of San Diego will spend $1 billion over the next six years to upgrade its sewer system under a comprehensive settlement filed in federal court today by the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The consent decree settles a lawsuit over sewer spills filed in 2001 by The Surfrider Foundation and San Diego Coastkeeper. ...
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Danbury Conn. reaches settlement for clean water violations
The City of Danbury, Conn. will pay a $30,000 fine and perform a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) at a cost of approximately $48,000 to resolve federal Clean Water Act (CWA) violations related to the operation of its wastewater collection and conveyance system. The case stems from an inspection of the City’s Collection System in the spring of 2009. The inspection revealed many ...
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Richard Phillips Marine, Inc. and Clackamas County resolve Clean Water Act violation in Sandy River
Richard Phillips Marine, Inc., a contractor specializing in marine construction, and Clackamas County Water Environmental Services in Oregon reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act that occurred during repairs to the county’s Hoodland Sewage Treatment Plant, which discharges to the Sandy River. In 2012, the U.S. Army ...
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SUGARFILTER - The filter for storm drains by IVERNA
SUGARFILTER is the new IVERNA filter for installation under scuppers, gutters or storm drains. Due to the presence on the roads of waste, natural residues and water erosion, often objects such as bottles, cigarette, tree leaves and sand cause the obstruction of rainwater receptors, such as scuppers and storm drains, which directly produce small floods generating socio-economic damage and ...
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IVERNA supplies its polypropylene manhole step irons to the millionaire project in Galati (Romania)
Last summer 2018, the construction company Hidroconstructia SA was awarded the important construction project of expansion and rehabilitation of the water supply and sewerage networks of the municipalities of Galati and Focşani (Romania). The budget for this great work amounts to more than 62 million euros and has been financed with European funds through the operational programs. The ...
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U.S. and Tennessee announce clean water act agreement with the city of Memphis
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General announced a comprehensive Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the City of Memphis, Tenn. Memphis has agreed to make improvements to its sewer systems to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage. ...
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Dekalb county, GA., agrees to major sanitary sewer system upgrades (GA)
DeKalb County, Ga. has agreed to make major improvements to its sanitary sewer systems in an effort to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated sewage, the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced today. In addition, DeKalb will pay a civil penalty of $453,000, to be split evenly between the United States and the state of Georgia, and implement a ...
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Columbia, S.C., Agrees to Major Sewer System Upgrades
The Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced a proposed settlement today with the City of Columbia to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), including unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage. Columbia has agreed to undertake a thorough assessment of, and implement ...
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U.S. EPA and U.S. Navy reach agreement on infrastructure upgrades at the Apra Harbor wastewater treatment plant and sewer system
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Navy have completed a compliance agreement that sets out a schedule of upgrades the Navy will make at its Naval Base Guam to the Navy’s Apra Harbor wastewater treatment plant and sewer system. “The Navy has made a substantial commitment of resources to comply with this agreement," said Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator for ...
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