Blogs

It is a very good question and one we hear a lot. However, when we rattle off a few reasons why, it soon becomes apparent that with the right maintenance, a sewage treatment plant can last a very long time without carrying out major works on it!   Here are a few...

Southern Water hit with record £126m penalty after 'serious failures’ The Company faces prosecution by the Environment Agency following discovery of wastewater spills. The water regulator said the company had showed ‘scant regard for its responsibilities to society...

As winter approaches every year and the wet weather sets in, the expected number of calls reporting drainage field (or more commonly referred to as a soakaway) failure increase. Year after year the pattern continues and quite often, we get re-occurring calls from the...

A block of hardened fat, oil and wet-wipes longer than six double-decker buses was discovered in the sewer beneath The Esplanade in Sidmouth, Devon. It has been predicted that it will take South West Water workers eight weeks to cut up and remove the 64-metre...