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flag Dorset estate fined over £19k for excessive water use during drought, harming rare chalk stream.

flag The Environment Agency has fined the Ilchester Estate in Dorset £19,777.69 plus costs for overusing water during a drought, abstracting enough to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools. flag The estate ignored warnings to reduce water abstraction from the ecologically sensitive Dorset Frome, one of the world's rare chalk streams. flag Despite being advised to apply for higher abstraction limits in 2018, the estate continued to exceed its water use limits through 2023.

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