Northern Ireland Water Ltd (NIW), was fined £5000 plus court costs of £46 and analytical costs of £155, at Antrim Magistrates Court today, for pollution offences.
NIW, Northland House, 3 Frederick Street, Belfast, pleaded guilty to discharging polluting matter so that it entered a waterway, the Crumlin River, which is a tributary of Lough Neagh.
On 1 April 2007 an Inspector, acting on behalf of Environment and Heritage Service, investigated a pollution incident affecting the Crumlin River. He traced the polluting discharge to Crumlin Terminal Sewage Pumping Station where he found there was a discharge of untreated sewage overflowing to the river and took statutory samples.
Notes to Editors
- The charge was brought under the Water (NI) Order 1999, Article 7(1)(a), “discharging polluting matter”.
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