Chalking Another One Off?

It seems positively Victorian. Thames Water (a major private water company in the South of England) has reportedly been periodically discharging (for at least the last 6 years) untreated raw sewage into a protected chalk stream in Buckinghamshire (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/01/raw-sewage-discharged-stream-buckinghamshire-thames-water). The River Chess, near Chesham, is the recipient of the Thames Water discharges. Chalk streams are important locations for all sorts of wildlife, including Otters, Kingfishers and Brown trout. Six years seems a very long time for Thames Water, to be given by the Environmental Agency, to get its act together!