Man fined £10,000 for fuel spill
Published Date:
19 November 2008
A BUILDING contractor has been fined £10,000 after admitting drilling through a pipeline on a US base at Mildenhall allowing nearly 40,000 gallons of poisonous jet fuel to spill into ground water.
Roy Clarke, 59, of Flax Farm, Diss, was working as a sub-contractor when the incident happened in April last year, Bury St Edmunds Magistrates' Court heard on Tuesday.
The damage cost Anglian Water about £100,000 to repair, with about 5,000 gallons of the fuel removed.
Mark Watson, prosecuting, said Anglian Water was still dealing with the pollution some 18 months later.
The court heard that the contractor who hired Clarke, T Clarke (Midlands) Ltd, of Walworth Road in London, has pleaded not guilty to its part in the pollution incident and is due to go on trial at Ipswich Crown Court in December.
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19 November 2008 5:28 PM
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