‘Ankle deep in sewage’: English spring water village suffers supected unlawful spills
Water firm Severn Trent accused of being in breach of environmental permits over pollution near Malvern Hills
• Top-rated UK water firms ‘dumped 1,374 illegal spills into rivers’
Colwall, a village of less than 3,000 people on the border between Herefordshire and Worcestershire, is renowned for its spring water, which comes from the nearby Malvern Hills. An area of outstanding natural beauty, it has been favoured by the royal family for centuries, including Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria.
But the water at Colwall is now in the spotlight for very different reasons. The most recent data from Severn Trent Water, the company that covers the area, reveals that a sewage treatment works on Cradley Brook, near the village, spilled sewage for 1,756 hours in 2021 and 1,361 hours in 2022.
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