Cleaning firm fined £29,000 for repeated standpipe offences
Cleaning company JM Clark Ltd has been convicted on 33 offences for illegally connecting to the Thames Water clean water supply network. The company has been ordered to pay £29,000 for repeated offences over the past six years across its operations in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and London.
Thames Water reported that it is clamping down on illegal water connections.
Thames Water said it met with JM Clark in 2018 to encourage it to comply with the rules. The water firm said, following the prosecution in 2022, it was given a three-month period to review its standpipe usage but committed four more offences and continued to connect to the water supply illegally.
Thames Water said that since 2017, it had uncovered and prosecuted more than 400 separate offences and issued over 550 retrospective charges for first offences.
In total the business has recouped £490,000 in the past seven years. It said it had reinvested the fines money into “crucial work to provide clean and wastewater services to around 16m customers across London and the Thames Valley”.
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