One of our key aims is to leave the environment in a better state than today so it can be enjoyed for generations to come.
A key part of that is to not over abstracting water from rivers and aquifers as well as breaching licensed or permits.
Our target during 2022/23 was to have zero breaches.
How have we performed?
We had 80 breaches during the 2022/23 reporting year.
Of these:
- 26 were environmental discharge consent breaches which we self-reported to the Environment Agency. These breaches were minor events and relate to process water from our clean water treatment works discharging into the environment or waterways.
- 18 were incidents relating to treated clean water burst water mains discharging water to the local environment.
- 36 incidents related to daily or annual abstraction licence breaches where we extracted more water than we were licensed to.
None of the breaches caused a long-term impact and measures are in place to mitigate or prevent future events.
