Tyrone farm business fined for water pollution
Date of alert:
Friday, 1 March 2024
Crime Ref:
Force:
Police Service of Northern Ireland
A Co. Tyrone farm business has been fined in court for water pollution.
Hillside Dairy Farms Ltd., Camderry Road, Dromore, Co. Tyrone was fined a total of £5,000 plus £15 Offenders Levy at Omagh Magistrates’ Court.
The waterway impacted was an unnamed tributary of the Owenreagh River in Northern Ireland. The waterway was impacted for a distance of 1km.
Hillside Dairy Farms Ltd. was fined and charged under the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 for the offence of making a polluting discharge to a waterway on October 21, 2022 and also for making a discharge of trade or sewage effluent into a waterway between November 4, 2022 and January 25, 2023.
The court heard that on October 21, 2022, water quality inspectors (WQIs) acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) responded to a report of pollution.
