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Brixham water contamination price South West Water dad or mum Pennon £16m

By Editorial Board Published September 26, 2024 2 Min Read
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Brixham water contamination price South West Water dad or mum Pennon £16m

The fallout from parasite-contaminated water in a part of Devon price South West Water £16m, the utility has revealed.

It needed to implement a boil water discover when individuals within the Brixham space turned sick after diarrhoea-causing cryptosporidium was present in a reservoir in Could.

The discover remained in place for eight weeks with roughly 17,000 households informed to boil their ingesting water.

South West Water stated on Thursday morning it needed to clear and flush its water community 27 occasions and substitute sections of the 30-kilometre grid to revive provide to clients.

Employees labored “24 hours a day”, the corporate stated, and put in extra water therapy measures on the community reminiscent of ultra-violet therapy crops.

Additional prices got here from operating bottled water websites for purchasers. The ingesting water air pollution is believed to have been attributable to cattle manure getting right into a broken air valve in a farmer’s discipline.

However the associated fee may have been increased if authorities compensation proposals had been enacted on the time.

Beneath reforms introduced by Atmosphere Secretary Steve Reed, water firms should pay households when boil water notices are issued.

Mr Reed is searching for to greater than double compensation sums and can seek the advice of on upping remuneration.

In Could, dad or mum firm Pennon revealed it was paying out about £3.5m in compensation to clients affected by the parasite outbreak.

In its newest monetary report, it introduced an 8.6% improve in underlying working earnings to £166.3m.

Whereas water within the Brixham space is now drinkable once more, maintaining water clear has been difficult for the agency as a result of “higher than normal rainfall” and groundwater ranges, Pennon stated in a buying and selling replace.

That has impacted the variety of air pollution incidents and the “performance of a small number of treatment works”, it added.

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