Firm Fined £47K for Illegal Discharges into Sewer Network

Making illegal discharges into Severn Trent Water's sewer network has cost Arrow Environmental Services more than £60,000 in fines and costs

This is the second time that the company, which provides environmental services to the construction industry, has been successfully prosecuted by Severn Trent Water.

Martin Kane, chief engineer for Severn Trent Water, says that, even after the legal notice was served on Arrow, the firm was been found to have committed further offences of discharging effluent above the legal limits.

"We're really disappointed to have had to prosecute Arrow Environmental Services once again," states Kane.

"We're even more disappointed that this is not the end of the story and that we're now considering further prosecutions based on yet more failures from them," he continues.

"For a company that advertise themselves as having 'a fresh approach to environmental issues', with a 'state-of-the-art plant' which has 'helped to minimise their environmental impact', we'd expect better."

Kane also wonders at the fact that Arrow prides itself on working for public service sector organisations and local government, as well as some of the UK's best known brand names.

Source: Plant Engineer

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