Lake Windermere: Sewage
(asked on 17th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the accounts that United Utilities failed to report sewage discharges into Lake Windermere between 2021 and 2023.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) is carrying out an investigation into United Utilities’ (UU) discharges into Lake Windermere.
The investigation concerns three separate incidents that were self-reported by UU. One of these incidents was a retrospective report of pollution.
Where a breach of a UU permit has occurred, the EA will take the appropriate enforcement action in accordance with its enforcement and sanctions policy.