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23/10/2008

Mallusk Firm Fined £6,000 For 12 Waste Offences

A Co Antrim company was fined a total of £6,000 this week (21 October) for 12 offences of contravening the terms of a discharge consent into a waterway.

James Boyd and Sons (Carnmoney) Ltd, The Square, Ballyclare was fined £500 for each charge plus £67 court costs at Belfast Magistrates' Court.

The company has a consent to discharge effluent from a quarry it operates at 140 Mallusk Road, Newtownabbey, into a waterway, namely the Cottonmount Drain, a tributary of the Sixmile Water, which sets limits on the quality and quantity of the effluent that can be discharged.

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Following complaints of pollution, 12 statutory samples were taken from the consented discharge point between 1 August 2006 and 4 January 2007.

The results showed that all of these samples failed to comply with the consent conditions in respect of suspended solids.

The discharges were found to be highly polluting in nature, containing deleterious matter and would have been potentially harmful to the fish-life in a receiving watercourse.

See: Mallusk Firm Hit With River Pollution Fine

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