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A County Tyrone farmer has been fined over £700 for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
Mr Gary Anderson pleaded guilty and was fined £750, plus £28 Court Costs and £15 Offenders Levy at Dungannon Magistrates' Court.
On 27 November 2013, Water Quality Inspectors, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency observed what appeared to be pig slurry flowing down the Lisboy Road and entering a road gully. The Inspectors followed the flow of slurry back along the Lisboy Road to a point where slurry was observed flowing from under a hedge from a grass bank.
A dye test confirmed the polluting discharge was entering an unnamed tributary of the Kingsmill River in the Ballinderry catchment area. The source of the polluting discharge was traced to farm premises owned by Mr Gary Anderson.
A sample taken at the time of the incident confirmed that the discharges contained poisonous, noxious or polluting matter which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving waterway.
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