HC Deb 25 July 1989 vol 157 cc684-5W
Mr. Pike

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in theOfficial Report, those sewage treatment works in the North West water authority which have failed to meet their discharge consents during the last 12-month period for which figures are available.

Mr. Howard

In 1988 90 per cent. of sewage treatment works in the North West water authority area complied with the terms of their discharge consents. Those which did not are as follows:

  • Adlington
  • Appleby
  • Ashley
  • Ayside
  • Barrow in Furness (Palace N)
  • Beston
  • Beetham
  • Betley
  • Bolton
  • Brigham
  • Chorley No.1
  • Crooklands
  • Delamere
  • Dunkinfield
  • Eaglesfield
  • Failsworth
  • Fazakcrley
  • Gamblesby
  • Glenridding
  • Hesketh Bank
  • High Leigh
  • Hillhouse
  • Horton-in-Ribblesdale
  • Hyde
  • Irlam
  • Kendal
  • Langwathby
  • Nether Eover
  • Ormskirk
  • Pardshaw
  • Prescot
  • Ravenstonedale
  • Rowrah Skelmersdale
  • Strines
  • Talkin
  • Thornton Hough
  • Utkinton (Quarry Bank)
  • Wardle
  • Weeton
  • Wigan
  • Winder gill
  • Worsley

The North West water authority has in hand a major capital expenditure programme designed to bring substandard sewage treatment works into compliance with their discharge consents by March 1992, wherever practicable.