A Co Antrim building company has been fined £4,000 plus £28 court costs at Newtownards Magistrates' Court.

W J Law & Co. LLP, of Moira Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

On 28 February 2008, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA, formerly the Environment and Heritage Service), observed a waterway to be badly polluted with an extensive growth of sewage fungus extending for some 200 metres. The source of the polluting discharge was traced to a sewage pumping station owned by W J Law & Co LLP.

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

(NS/BMcC)