On 11 January 2007 Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) officers investigated complaints of illegal depositing of controlled waste at 181 Thornhill Road Pomeroy. The officers found that the site was being used as an illegal waste transfer site, where waste is separated, the material burnt and the residue disposed of off-site.
Under caution, Mr Gillen admitted taking waste from Keeragh, Pomeroy and other sites to an unlicensed waste transfer station that he operated at 181 Thornhill Rd, rather than to legal sites.
EHS investigating officers found that on one occasion Mr Gillen was paid £1,605 for the legal disposal of 13 skips of waste. Instead, he took the waste to his site, burnt it, disposed of the residue at an unknown location and then falsified documentation to indicate that it had gone to a legal site.
Mr Gillen was fined on £2,000 plus £10 court costs on the first of the six charges, the remaining five charges were dealt with by a conditional discharge for 6 months.
Notes to Editors:
The controlled waste included builders rubble, scrap metal, wood, insulation material, domestic waste, burnt waste, ash, plaster and paper.
Mr Gillen was charged under the following Articles of The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997Article 4(1), relating to the disposal of controlled waste.
Article 4(1)b, relating to the keeping of controlled waste in or on land unless a waste management licence authorising the deposit is in force and the deposit in accordance with the licence.
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