South West Water pleads guilty to five pollution offences

South West Water has pleaded guilty to five offences related to illegal water discharge activities and a breach of an environmental permit.

At a hearing before Plymouth Magistrates’ Court, the company admitted two charges of causing a sewage discharge and breaching an environmental permit at its Hooe Lake Sewage Pumping Station at Plymstock between August and September 2020.

It also admitted to causing a discharge into Polperro harbour in August 2019 and two other charges relating to discharges at Bodmin Road, Whitleigh, Plymouth in August and September 2020.

The case was adjourned for sentencing at a later date.