WASTE: The outfall pipe from Southern Water’s Budds Farm site into a stream running into Langstone Harbour
SOUTHERN Water is being investigated after it admitted sewage was allowed to spew into a protected nature reserve.
Untreated waste was pumped into Langstone Harbour when filtering screens failed at the pumping station at Fort Cumberland, Eastney, and the water treatment works at Budds Farm in Havant, following heavy rain.
Mike Hancock, MP for Portsmouth South, described it as ‘completely unacceptable’ and has called Southern Water to be held to account.
The water firm has been taken to court and prosecuted 40 times in the past nine years for pollution offences.
Last year it was fined a total of £150,000 for sewage leaks.
Continue reading Investigation into water company after Langstone Harbour sewage spill
Follow Havant FOE