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27/03/2012
Farmer Fined For Pollution Offence
A Co Antrim farmer was fined £750 plus court costs of £24 at Ballymena Magistrates' Court today.
Mr Richard Millar of Drumfin Road, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
On 15 June 2011, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency inspected an unnamed tributary of the Clogh River at Doury Road, Ballymena and observed a white coloured fungal growth was present on the bed of the waterway. Approximately 1.8 kilometres of waterway was affected by the discharge.
The source of the polluting discharge was traced to a farm owned by Mr Millar.
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.
(CD/GK)
Mr Richard Millar of Drumfin Road, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
On 15 June 2011, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency inspected an unnamed tributary of the Clogh River at Doury Road, Ballymena and observed a white coloured fungal growth was present on the bed of the waterway. Approximately 1.8 kilometres of waterway was affected by the discharge.
The source of the polluting discharge was traced to a farm owned by Mr Millar.
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.
(CD/GK)
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