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29.03.2022 - 18:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A long-running legal battle between the owners of the Manchester Ship Canal and the region’s water company over the discharge of sewage into the canal has reached the Court of Appeal.
The Manchester Ship Canal Company (MSCC) are seeking to overturn rulings from last year that United Utilities (UU) is and continues to be entitled to discharge water and/or other matter into the canal, and that the canal company cannot bring any future private legal action over it. There are a total of 121 sewage outfalls overseen by United Utilities which can discharge waste into the canal.
The canal runs for over 35 miles from just east of Salford Quays to the Mersey Estuary at Eastham on the Wirral. A court previously heard the discharges occurred on occasions when heavy rainfall causes the capacity of the sewage system to be exceeded.
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The dispute between the parties reached the Supreme Court in 2014, which ruled the firm had a legal right to discharge “surface water and treated effluent” from sewers that existed before privatisation in 1991. This did not include five sewers which the canal company had specific contractual agreements regarding.
In a case heard last year, Mr Justice Fancourt then ruled UU also had a right to continue to drain water through those. The Ship Canal Company had argued that any discharge of water that was insufficiently treated was “unauthorised by statute” and therefore a “trespass” on their property – something the judge rejected.
In response, United Utilities also successfully obtained a ruling that in the absence of an allegation of “negligence or deliberate wrongdoing”, the MSCC was not able to bring private law actions of trespass or nuisance against United Utilities in relation to
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