Containment News March 2015: ‘Sewage Spill’

‘Sewage Spill’ United Utilities were recently fined £750,000 for a sewage spill which polluted a Cumbrian estuary, of course this figure is just the tip of the fatberg and will not include investigation and clean-up costs.  A bill a fraction of that magnitude would devastate most small and medium sized businesses and yet there is still a blinkered ignorance amongst many companies regarding what constitutes adequate containment and insurance…