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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out

An Anglian Water sewage treatment plant.
An Anglian Water sewage treatment plant. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

The water firm Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at its sewage plants that were never carried out.

Operational data reveals how more than 6,000 pollution tests from 2015 to 2024 could not be carried out under a controversial self-monitoring regime because it was reported there was no outflow of treated sewage from the plants.

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