Strabane farmer fined £1500 for pollution offence

A FARMER who pleaded guilty and was fined £1,500, and ordered to pay Court costs of £22 at Strabane Magistrates Court, on a pollution charge.
By The Newsroom
Published 14th Apr 2012, 09:53 BST

Mr Charles Crumley, of Dergalt Road, Strabane, Co Tyrone was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

The Court heard that on May 11 last year, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, inspected a waterwayat Dergalt Road, Strabane and observed it to be visibly polluted with sewage fungus and running cloudy. Approximately 285 metres of waterway was affected by the discharge. The source of this polluting discharge was traced to a farm owned by Mr Crumley.

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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.

Crumley was charged under Article 7 (1) (a) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 with the offence of making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

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