A Balclutha dairy farm has been fined almost 40-thousand dollars for effluent discharge
A Balclutha dairy farm has been fined almost 40-thousand dollars for effluent discharge
3 August 2019
Greg Cowley Limited was sentenced after pleading guilty to one charge of discharging dairy farm effluent onto land where it might enter water.
The enforcement action followed an Otago Regional Council inspection in April last year.
It found an irrigator had failed and gone unchecked for six hours, leading to ponded effluent covering the majority of a 2200 square metre paddock.
The effluent flowed over land into a tributary to the Pomahaka River, affecting the clarity of the river for almost two kilometres.
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