Sewage: West Dorset
Commons · Question 36996 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has issued recent enforcement actions against water companies for sewage discharges at (a)Charmouth West Stream and (b) Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 18 Mar 2025
For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. It is the responsibility of water companies to invest in infrastructure and other improvements to reduce untreated wastewater pollution incidents....