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2022-06-30 | |
发布年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | Somerset farmer fined second time for polluting Frome watercourseFrome farmer Michael Aylesbury, a director of Cross Keys Farms Ltd, has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 for polluting the River Frome, Frome, Somerset. The case was heard at North Somerset Magistrates Court on 28 June 2022. Cross Keys Farms Ltd pleaded guilty to causing an unpermitted discharge of slurry. This polluted the Somerset Frome river in Frome, turning it brown and smelly in August 2020. The slurry pollution killed more than 120 adult fish, including many large pike, roach and chub. He was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay costs of £13,631.08. In 2017 Aylesbury was found guilty of polluting this same stretch of the River Frome in 2016, killing more than 1,700 fish. Members of the public alerted the Environment Agency to the pollution on 20 August 2020. Local residents carrying out ‘citizen science’ river monitoring provided helpful evidence for our investigation. Reminded of the 2016 pollution incident, the sight of dead and dying fish distressed many people. One local fisherman described feeling ‘physically sick’ from the strong putrid smell of dead fish and said the sight of the dead fish was ‘heart breaking’. The pollution came from slurry that had been washed out of a soiled cattle trailer and rinsed out on to a concrete yard at Bollow Farm, Silver Lane, East Woodlands. Also, a pile of slurry left open to the elements was washed into the surface water drain, ending up in the river. Environment Officers found the ditch and river smelt strongly of slurry and low in dissolved oxygen. Investigations also showed that the slurry pollution resulted in the death of most invertebrates over more than 2.6 kilometres downstream. Andy Grant, Environment Officer, said:
Luke Kozak , a Project Manager from the Environment Agency’s Environment Programme Team said:
If anyone is concerned about pollution or an environmental incident they should call the Environment Agency’s 24-hour incident hotline on 0800 80 70 60. Notes to editorsCharges
Contrary to Regulations 12(1)(b) and Regulation 38(1)(a) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.
Contrary to Regulation 10(1) of the Water Resources (Control of Pollution) (Silage, Slurry and agricultural Fuel Oil) (England) Regulations 2010. Citizen scienceThe Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) offer opportunities to carry out citizen science monitoring through their ‘RiverBlitz’ project and ‘River Fly Monitoring’ – further information can be found by visiting the BART website https://bristolavonriverstrust.org/.
Published 30 June 2022
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来源平台 | UK Environment Agency |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/352373 |
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