Water firm dumping sewage into sea told to release data
The Guardian|May 03, 2024
A water company that tried to keep secret details of thousands of tonnes of raw sewage discharges into the sea has been ordered to release the data in the public interest.
Sandra Laville
Water firm dumping sewage into sea told to release data

Northumbrian Water has repeatedly refused to release details about the scale of raw sewage discharges into the North Sea from an outflow at its pumping station in Whitburn, after a campaigner asked under freedom of information and environmental information regulations.

Campaigners say the pollution has been going on for years, but the Environment Agency, Northumbrian Water and the government all dispute their findings.

In 2012 the European court of justice ruled the sewage discharges at Whitburn put the UK in breach of its legal obligations to treat wastewater and gave the government five years to remedy the situation.

Steve Lavelle, vice-chair of the neighbourhood forum in Whitburn, south Tyneside, said: "We need this information to show this pollution is still going on. We want the data to feed into our neighbourhood plan so that we can provide the details about the capacity of sewage treatment in the area when any future development is proposed.

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