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A Co Antrim farmer was fined £2,000 at Lisburn Magistrates' Court today, for making a polluting discharge to a waterway,
Mr George Anderson, of Tullyard Road, Lisburn, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay Court Costs of £22 and an Offenders Levy of £15.
On 8 January 2013, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), inspected an unnamed tributary of the River Lagan at Tullyard, Lisburn.
There was a thick growth of fungus on the bed of the waterway, downstream of the point of entry of a brown coloured discharge emanating from an adjacent field.
The source of the material discharging to the waterway and causing the pollution was determined to be the farm premises of Mr George Anderson at Tullyard Road, Lisburn.
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/MH)
