Co Antrim businessman fined for polluting discharge to a waterway

A Co Antrim businessman was fined £500 plus £70 court costs for water pollution at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court today.

Raymond Todd trading as Glenview Foods, of Moyarget Road, Ballycastle, Co Antrim, BT54 6HL was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

On 3 May 2008, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) found that a tributary of the Tow River was polluted with a heavy contamination of fungal growth and was brown in colour. Inspection of the waterway revealed that it was contaminated for approximately 400 metres. The source of the polluting discharge was traced to the premises of Glenview Foods owned by Mr Todd.

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 .

Notes to editors:

1. Raymond Todd trading as Glenview Foods was charged under Article 7 (1) (a) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 with the offence of making a polluting discharge to a waterway
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