Sydney Water fined close to $200,000 for release of raw sewage into Parramatta River

Sydney Water will have to pay almost $200,000 after being fined for the release of nearly 3 million litres of raw sewage into the Parramatta River in 2018. 

The agency pleaded guilty to two counts of water pollution in the Land and Environment Court. 

It was fined $175,500 for those two offences and will also have to pay the Environment Protection Agency’s legal costs of around $22,000. 

In October 2018, a wall inside the Northmead pumping station collapsed which flooded pumps and stopped them from…