Linda McCammond, of Kilcross Road, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co. Antrim, was fined £500 plus costs at Antrim Magistrates Court today, for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
On 20 April 2007, a Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (formally the Environment and Heritage Service) investigated a complaint of oil entering a waterway from a shed owned by Linda McCammond.
The officer entered the shed and observed a large volume of oil seeping through the walls of the shed and pooling in a waterway to the rear of the shed. There was also a pipe lead from the shed discharging oil into the waterway.
A sample taken from the waterway identified the discharge as diesel fuel. Effluent of this nature is polluting and would have a potentially harmful effect on wildlife in the receiving waterway.
Notes to Editors
- Mrs McCammond 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 and was fined £500 plus court costs of £19.
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