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05/02/2013
NI Water Fined For Pollution Offences
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined £2,500 for pollution offences at Downpatrick Magistrates Court.
The company was ordered to pay the fine, plus court costs, after pleading guilty to making a polluting discharge to a waterway from Burren Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) in Newcastle, County Down.
The charges followed an inspection by a Water Quality Inspector of the Burren River, adjacent to the Burren SPS, Marguerite Avenue, Newcastle, on 24 May.
The inspector observed the waterway was running cloudy and noticed sewage related debris.
It was subsequently determined that untreated sewage had been discharging from the SPS for a period of some 31 hours.
The pollution resulted in a major fish-kill downstream of the SPS, in the Burren and Shimna Rivers.
The areas affected are fishery and nursery habitats for salmon and sea trout, while both rivers flow through public park areas in central Newcastle.
Approximately 400 metres downstream of its confluence with the Burren River, the Shimna River discharges onto Newcastle beach.
The discharge was found to contain poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving waterway.
Meanwhile, a 58-year-old man has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, after pleading guilty to a range of waste offences.
Sean McStravick, of Colinglen Road, Belfast , is a director of Colinglen Contractors Limited.
His charges related to the unauthorised storage and treatment of household and commercial waste at a Unit in Kilwee industrial Estate, Belfast, between March and September 2009 and at Colinglen Road, Belfast between December 2010 and September 2011.
(IT)
The company was ordered to pay the fine, plus court costs, after pleading guilty to making a polluting discharge to a waterway from Burren Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) in Newcastle, County Down.
The charges followed an inspection by a Water Quality Inspector of the Burren River, adjacent to the Burren SPS, Marguerite Avenue, Newcastle, on 24 May.
The inspector observed the waterway was running cloudy and noticed sewage related debris.
It was subsequently determined that untreated sewage had been discharging from the SPS for a period of some 31 hours.
The pollution resulted in a major fish-kill downstream of the SPS, in the Burren and Shimna Rivers.
The areas affected are fishery and nursery habitats for salmon and sea trout, while both rivers flow through public park areas in central Newcastle.
Approximately 400 metres downstream of its confluence with the Burren River, the Shimna River discharges onto Newcastle beach.
The discharge was found to contain poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving waterway.
Meanwhile, a 58-year-old man has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, after pleading guilty to a range of waste offences.
Sean McStravick, of Colinglen Road, Belfast , is a director of Colinglen Contractors Limited.
His charges related to the unauthorised storage and treatment of household and commercial waste at a Unit in Kilwee industrial Estate, Belfast, between March and September 2009 and at Colinglen Road, Belfast between December 2010 and September 2011.
(IT)
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