Pollution
In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency in 2002, Total Fina Elf UK Ltd was fined a total of £54,000 for causing petrol to enter groundwater and a tributary of the Foudry Brook, from its service station in Tadley, Hampshire. Between January 1999 and March 2001 the petrol station lost between 2,000 and 10,000 litres of fuel into the ground following leaks in an underground petrol tank, and filler and suction lines.
In July 2010 a serious leak from sewage works into the Brook near Silchester caused the death of hundreds of fish and other aquatic organisms on a three-mile stretch of the brook.
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