SOUTHERN Water has been fined more than £13,000 after admitting accidentally pumping tonnes of raw sewage into a Hampshire river.
The leak from the Peel Common Sewage Treatment Works in Fareham polluted more than one-and-a-half miles of the River Alver, killing several fish and creatures living in the water.
Raw waste spewed into the river for more than an hour, following a power cut at the plant last July.
Investigators later found a 25 per cent concentration of raw sewage in the river.
At Fareham Magistrates Court today Southern Water was fined £10,000 for the leak and ordered to pay £3,155 costs to the agency.
Environment officer Brendon Hunter said afterwards: "The impact on the ecology of the River Alver was significant."
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