Defence to causing pollution
Defence to causing pollution
- 1994
- Times 21 November 1994, 38(1) .
In "National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd", HL 17 November 1994, it was held that where a sewage undertaker`s system gathered effluent into sewers which went through the works and was treated and the resultant liquid was carried into controlled waters, the cirmcumstances under which poisonous, noxious and polluting matter, such as iso-octanol, entered the sewers and works did not preclude the conclusion that the undertaker caused the polluting matter to enter controlled waters within Water Act 1989 s107(1)(a).
CONTROLLED WATERS
POLLUTION
SEWAGE TREATMENT
WATER ACT 1989 S107(1)(A)
WATER POLLUTION
In "National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd", HL 17 November 1994, it was held that where a sewage undertaker`s system gathered effluent into sewers which went through the works and was treated and the resultant liquid was carried into controlled waters, the cirmcumstances under which poisonous, noxious and polluting matter, such as iso-octanol, entered the sewers and works did not preclude the conclusion that the undertaker caused the polluting matter to enter controlled waters within Water Act 1989 s107(1)(a).
CONTROLLED WATERS
POLLUTION
SEWAGE TREATMENT
WATER ACT 1989 S107(1)(A)
WATER POLLUTION