5:40am Sunday 22nd November 2009
ENVIRONMENT chiefs last night brought in a ban on shellfishing along Southampton Water after a leak from Woolston sewage works.
The city council’s port health service is carrying out tests for contamination of the oysters and shellfish and are warning the ban could be in place for two weeks. They fear a risk to human health.
A Southern Water spokesman said it experienced a technical problem with one of the inlet screens at its Woolston plant on Tuesday.
The Environment Agency attended in an advisory role.
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