sewerage

If the firm does go bust, households will still have drinking water and sewerage services.

Water UK, the industry body for sewerage companies, has previously said spills are "unacceptable", but that it had a plan "to end water sewage flowing into all waterways" which involved significant infrastructure upgrades.

Five of these were from sewerage assets and were all category two.

Catherine had read in newspaper archives the sewage tank became defunct in 1937, when the institution was joined to the town’s sewerage system.

The water companies - along with the regulator Ofwat and the Environment Agency - decide when and where sewerage investment will be made.