Council faces £1.2m bill over sewage spill
A cash-strapped council faces a huge bill after workmen inadvertently damaged a main pipe, causing sewage to spill on to a nearby beach.Redcar and Cleveland Council has referred to the involvement of a third-party contractor and said it would be "inappropriate to comment further".
Northumbria Water is thought to have demanded £1.2m from the authority to pay for work to deal with the problem.Complex engineering work lasting several weeks was needed to work around the damage until a new pipe and fittings could be installed. The water company had to build a mini-treatment works and a dam to redirect water flows from the nearby Skelton Beck, the
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