Farmer pleads guilty to water pollution causing fish kill

A Co. Down farmer has pleaded guilty in court to a water pollution incident which resulted in a fish kill in the River Lagan.

Alan Wilson from Lurgan Road, Dromore was convicted on Tuesday, February 6 at Craigavon Magistrates’ Court for a water pollution offence.

The farmer was fined £750 and must pay a £15 offenders’ levy, together with £960.64 by way of compensation to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) as a result of the fish kill.

The 56-year-old was charged under Article 7(1)(a) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 as amended for the offence of making a polluting discharge to a waterway.