South West Water has been ordered to pay nearly 51 thousand pounds in fines and costs, over pollution from a sewage treatment plant at Dunkeswell which was discharged into a nearby stream.
A broken screening device and other problems led to waste which breached the agreed pollution limits entering the stream five times in the year to May 2014.
The plant was already scheduled for improvement and the company were told they should have done more to prevent the pollution.
South West Water had admitted the breaches at an earlier hearing and have now been fined 45 thousand pounds, and ordered to pay nearly six thousand in costs, plus a victim surcharge of 240 pounds.
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