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Dirty water run off

  • 15-01-2020 9:40pm
    #1
    stablepaddock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭


    If someone piped dirty water run off, from a milking parlor collecting yard, across a field to a dry ditch, what would be the risks in terms of the law, single farm payments etc.


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  • #2
    _Brian
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    I’m sure the co council would love to discuss that with said farmer.


  • #3
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    In some legislation I've seen a watercourse defined as ' capable of holding water'
    Therefore polluting a dry ditch would face the same penalties as polluting a watercourse with running water if you were caught.


  • #4
    barnaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭barnaman


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    In some legislation I've seen a watercourse defined as ' capable of holding water'
    Therefore polluting a dry ditch would face the same penalties as polluting a watercourse with running water if you were caught.


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/raw-sewage-from-36-towns-and-villages-released-into-waterways-38687539.html


    https://www.thejournal.ie/waste-water-treatment-problems-ireland-4888536-Nov2019/


    Wonder how County Councils define a watercourse. Worst polluters in the Country the Councils. Their ineptness then passed to Irish Water supported by the great Irish masses who do not want to pay for water or sewerage. My local shower below. Be a bit more worried about that then a bit of water from a yard running into a field.



    https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/home/493910/councillors-complain-about-raw-sewage-entering-river-at-co-tipperary-village.html


    "The pressing need for a waste water treatment plant for Grangemockler has been highlighted by local councillors who have complained to Co. Council management about raw sewerage from houses in the village entering the Linguan River that is a key source of Carrick-on-Suir's water supply."


  • #5
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    On the Irish Trout and Salmons anglers association website they list the number of court cases taken against landowners responsible for illegal discharges every year - fines are usually one to 3 thousand euros plus court expenses etc.


  • #6
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    stablepaddock wrote: »
    If someone piped dirty water run off, from a milking parlor collecting yard, across a field to a dry ditch, what would be the risks in terms of the law, single farm payments etc.

    Cow collection yards with cattle crossing is deemed as slurry and has to be handled as slurry with run off to ground water in to a problem area.


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