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Company: Thames Water Utilities Limited
Current Parent CompanyThames Water Utilities Ltd.
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement: Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
Company City/Town: Chipping Norton
Company Nation/Region: England
Company Number: 2366661
Penalty: £1,879,991
Year: 2019
Date: 26 July, 2019
Offence Group: environment-related offences
Offence Type: environmental violation
Violation Description: Thames Water was ordered to pay a £2 million fine (later changed to £1.8 million and £200,000 to local charities) with costs of £79,991 after pleading guilty to charges of allowing raw sewage into two Oxfordshire streams, after the company failed to respond to alarms triggered by equipment failure.
Action Type: agency action
Settlement Type: Guilty Plea
Case Number: 40334
Agency: Environment Agency
HQ Country of Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Parent: utilities and power generation
Specific Industry of Parent: water and sewer services
Source of Data: Contained in data received in response to a Freedom of Information request for a spreadsheet version of data contained in the Environment Agency Public Register at (click here)