It would appear that Yorkshire Water have had issues in 2007 regarding safety of discharge on their existing site in Hemingbrough area, below is an extract from the Yorkshire Post
Water company fined over sewage plant effluent
Published Date: 12 May 2007
By Brian Dooks
Yorkshire Water has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £1,119 costs over discharges from a sewage treatment works.
The company admitted one charge at Selby Magistrates' Court of breaching its consent to discharge from its Hemingbrough Sewage Treatment Works at Lands Lane, Hemingbrough, into the River Ouse.
Trevor Cooper, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said its officers routinely tested the discharge to make sure the eff-luent met the conditions of consent permits. Samples were taken in 2005 and 2006 that showed the company had exceeded the limit of suspended solids on three occasions in 12 months.
Under conditions in the consent the maximum amount permitted is 150mg per litre. The company is allowed to breach this consent no more than twice in one year. But Mr Cooper said it had exceeded this limit again on August 23, 2006, when 477mg per litre was discharged.
Yorkshire Water said the primary pump had stopped because an emergency button had been pressed, possibly by a third party. The company has now installed telemetry, which should give an early alert if any future problems.
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