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Farmer fined £2,000 for silage effluent pollution

Monday, 19 January 2009

A Co Down farmer was fined £2,000 plus £25 court costs at Newry Magistrates’ Court today.

Mr Charles Grant of Bavan Road, Mayobridge, Newry, pleaded guilty and was fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.

On 15 January 2008 an officer from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (formerly the Environment and Heritage Service) discovered that a stream near Bavan Road, Mayobridge was polluted. This was traced to the nearby farm of Mr Grant where it was found that silage effluent was escaping from a pipe.

A sample taken at the time confirmed that the effluent was highly polluting.

Notes to Editors:

  1. Mr Grant was charged under Article 7 of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 with the offence of making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
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