A Co Tyrone farmer pleaded guilty and was fined £1500 plus court costs of £22 at Strabane Magistrates Court.

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

On 11 May 2011, 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.

(CD/GK)