Environment Agency - Chicken processor fined for taking too much water just ahead of drought: Chicken processor Moy Park has admitted taking too much water for processing at its factory in Anwick, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Lincoln Magistrates’ Court today (Mon 6 Aug) fined the company �12,000 after hearing that it had taken 17% more than its annual allowance from two groundwater boreholes between March 2010 and April 2011 – just months before the area was declared to be in drought.
Records showed that the company had taken more water than it was allowed on more than half the days of the year.
Mrs Claire Corfield, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said Moy Park had been told several times in 2009 that it would not allow an increase in yearly abstraction amounts under its licence.
“The company was aware of the limits of the licence,” she told the court.
She said the company had saved money by not taking the extra water from a mains supplied by Anglian Water.
The company failed to attend an interview with the Environment Agency.
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