COUNTY COUNCIL CONVICTED AND FINED FOR WATER POLLUTION

Date Published: 23-Oct-2009

Galway County Council has been convicted and fined for water pollution at Clonbur.The case arose from monitoring by the Western Regional Fisheries Board, which detected pollution from discharges from Clonbur sewage treatment works.At Clifden District Court this week, Judge Mary Fahy fined the Council €500 for breaches of the Fisheries Acts, with monitoring costs of €650 and the Fisheries Board's legal costs of €627.