13/09/2010

Quarry Business Fined For Pollution

A Co Tyrone business has been fined £750 plus £22 court costs at Omagh Magistrates' Court.

McGarrity Brothers Ltd, Inishitave Road, Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone, was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

On 24 March 2009, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) observed a waterway to be discoloured brown and silty.

The source of the polluting discharge was traced to the McGarrity Brothers Ltd quarry at Inishitave Road, Sixmilecross.

A sample taken at the time of the incident confirmed that the discharge contained poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving waterway.

(GK/BMcC)

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