Water Company Donates £150,000 After Repeatedly Polluting Beck

YORKSHIRE Water is to donate £150,000 to a wildlife charity after an incident in which a York beck was repeatedly polluted with sewage.

The Environment Agency said the water company had offered an 'Enforcement Undertaking' to make amends for allowing Holgate Beck to be polluted by paying the sum to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

It said Bellhouse Way Sewage Pumping Station had an environmental permit to discharge sewage into the beck in emergencies, which did not include storm conditions and heavy rain, but it breached the permit with an unauthorised sewage discharge at the start of April 2018.