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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Emily Beament

£3.7bn plan to halt sewage pollution in Lake District ‘jewel’ Windemere

Proposals have been drawn up to restore Windermere, England’s largest lake (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Archive)

A £3.7 billion investment could clean up Windemere by preventing sewage and road runoff entering the waters of England’s largest lake, a feasibility study has said.

The scheme, whose backers include the region’s water company United Utilities (UU) and campaigners fighting to restore Windemere to health, would include a huge tunnel to carry sewage to a new “state-of-the-art” water treatment works.

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