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A farmer has been given a conditional discharge for two years at Ballymena Magistrates' Court.
Bill Livingstone was found guilty for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
He was also ordered to pay £19 court costs.
On 6 March 2014, a Water Quality Inspector (WQI), acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), inspected a waterway at Moorfields Road, Ballymena and observed that the waterway was brown in colour and detected an agricultural odour.
The WQI observed that slurry was flowing off a field which then entered the waterway. The polluting discharge was traced to farm premises owned by Mr Livingstone. The length of waterway impacted by the discharge was in excess of 450 metres.
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/JP)
