Construction company Winvic has been fined for polluting a brook at the vast East Midlands Gateway site on the Leicestershire/Derbyshire border.
The Environment Agency said the construction giant was fined £160,000 and ordered to pay costs of more than £25,500 after admitting responsibility for the breach back in 2019.
It said Winvic Construction Limited, based in Moulton Park, Northampton, was working on the giant warehouse hub just off junction 24 of the M1, when run-off contaminated with clay caused “gross and chronic” pollution to Hemington Brook. There had been “unprecedented rainfall” at the time.
