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A Co. Down farmer has been fined £500 plus £31 court costs
at Lisburn Magistrates' Court.
Mr William Wilson, of Edentrillick Road, Hillsborough, was
fined for making a polluting discharge to a waterway.
On 22 January 2010, Water Quality Inspectors acting on behalf
of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency responded to a
pollution incident at a farm at Edentrillick Road, Hillsborough
and observed that slurry had escaped from a slurry lagoon
and flowed down a road for approximately 550 metres.
Examination of the slurry lagoon revealed that it was in
a poor state of repair. The slurry entered a road gully from
where it discharged to a waterway. The waterway was badly
polluted and had foam in it and the source of the polluting
discharge was traced to a farm owned by Mr Wilson.
Samples taken at the time of the incident confirmed that
the discharge contained poisonous, noxious or polluting matter
which was potentially harmful to fish life in the receiving
waterway.
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