Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) took the case against Uisce Éireann.
UISCE ÉIREANN – IRELAND’S national water utility – has been fined €5,000 for polluting the River Liffey at a water treatment plant in Kildare.
The conviction was secured on 3 July of this year under Section 171 of the Fisheries Act 1959, for allowing deleterious matter to enter the River Liffey main channel upstream of Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare.Commenting on the case, Brian Beckett, Eastern River Basin District Director at IFI said “point-source pollution events” such as the one that occurred were “entirely avoidable through good on-site management, regular visual checks, and monitoring of discharge points”.
IFI is currently working on a number of initiatives in the River Liffey catchment with regulatory and non-regulatory stakeholders with a view to maximising the sustainability of all fish and their habitat. A spokesperson for Uisce Éireann said that the utility was made aware of the discharge from the Water Treatment Plant into the Liffey on 16 June of last year.
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