Press releases for February 2008
SOUTHERN WATER SUPPORTS ADOPT-A-GARDEN - 26/2/2008
Southern Water has donated water butts to a new scheme which matches green-fingered people with those who have a garden but are unable to look after it.
SOUTHERN WATER HELPS CHILDREN’S HOSPICE - 22/2/2008
Southern Water has donated six water butts to help a children’s hospice create an environmentally-friendly garden.
GRAINS OF SAND HELP RIVER GROM - 22/2/2008
A £3 million environmental improvement scheme to bring cleaner water to a river has reached a milestone.
SWEETER SMELL OF SUCCESS - 22/2/2008
An environmentally friendly project is under way using seashells to reduce the smell generated by a wastewater treatment works.
SEWER REPAIRS UNDER WAY - 22/2/2008
Southern Water has started work to help reduce the risk of sewer flooding to properties in a Hampshire village.
BILLS FOR 2008-09 - 21/2/2008
Southern Water’s average household bill will be £359 in 2008-09, compared with £333 last year.
SOUTHERN WATER SUPPORTS SCHOOL’S SURVIVAL CLUB - 18/2/2008
The Gregg School in Southampton is now able to carry out tasks more efficiently at its ‘Ray Mears’ style survival club, thanks to Southern Water.
SOUTHERN WATER CONTRIBUTES TO WILDLIFE SENSORY GARDEN - 18/2/2008
Isle of Wight-based charity and disability organisation, Osel Enterprises Ltd, is planting an educational wildlife sensory garden for the local community to enjoy, with the help of Southern Water.
SOUTHERN WATER FUNDS SCHOOL’S WOODLAND SURVEY - 18/2/2008
Woodland located behind Heyworth Primary School in Haywards Heath can now be properly surveyed thanks to a grant given to the school by Southern Water.
ROMSEY ROAD REOPENS IN WINCHESTER - 11/2/2008
Southern Water has worked around the clock in Winchester to enable Romsey Road to reopen six weeks ahead of schedule.
OFWAT FINE - UPDATE - 8/2/2008
Southern Water accepts Ofwat’s fines on the company, for its historical misreporting of customer service performance and failure to make all guaranteed standard payments up to October 2005, and re-confirms that this will be paid by shareholders.
NEW EASTNEY PLANS ANNOUNCED - 7/2/2008
Southern Water has drawn up revised plans to help protect Portsmouth from sewer flooding.
FIRST TIME SEWERAGE PLANS ANNOUNCED - 7/2/2008
A public exhibition will give residents the opportunity to talk to engineers about a new sewerage system to be built in Stone Cross, near Pevensey, East Sussex.
COLD CALLING CONTROL ZONES FOR MAIDSTONE - 6/2/2008
Would you invite in a thief who knocked at your door?
NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANS FOR BRIGHTON, HOVE AND PEACEHAVEN AREA - 1/2/2008
Southern Water’s new plans for a wastewater treatment and sludge recycling centre at Peacehaven have been submitted to East Sussex County Council and will go on show later this month (February).
