Farmer fined £11,000 after slurry kills thousands of fish
21 December 2020 |
Environmental officers counted over 2,400 dead fish, including hundreds of brown trout
A Carmarthenshire farmer has been ordered to pay out over £11,000 after a slurry spill killed thousands of fish.
Iwan Humphreys, 42, of Crachdy Uchaf, Llanfynydd, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.
On 8 July 2019 he caused a discharge of slurry in the Afon Dulas that severely affected 5km of the river, causing the worst level of harm, classed as category 1.
He was ordered pay the highest level for the offence, totalling £11,366 - fine £1,760, prosecution costs £9,430 and victim surcharge £176 - at Swansea Magistrates’ Courts on 11 December.
Slurry from a Carmarthenshire farm killed thousands of fish A Carmarthenshire farmer, whose negligent management of slurry killed thousands of fish in the Afon Dulas, has been fined by Swansea Magistrates’ Courts. Iwan Humphreys, aged 42, of Crachdy Uchaf, Llanfynydd, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016. On July 8, 2019 he caused a discharge of slurry in the Afon Dulas that severely affected almost five kilometres of the river, causing the worst level of harm classed as category 1 by the District Judge. Mr Humphreys was ordered to pay the highest level fine for the offence, totalling £11,366 - which included a fine of £1,760, prosecution costs of £9,430 and a £176 victim surcharge - at Swansea Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, December 11.
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A farmer has been fined after a slurry leak killed more than 2,000 fish in Carmarthenshire.
Iwan Humphreys, 42, of Crachdy Uchaf, Llanfynydd, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.
Environmental officers from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) visited the farm in July 2019 and over several days found evidence of a slurry discharge in the River Dulas near Capel Isaac.
Officers counted at least 2,478 dead fish, including 746 brown trout. They also found much of the macroinvertebrate population essential to the river’s ecosystem had been lost.
Mr Humphreys was ordered pay £11,366 at Swansea Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, 11 December. This included a fine of £1,760, prosecution costs of £9,430 and victim surcharge of £176.
Farmer polluted 5km of river killing thousands of fish in most serious case of harm possible
Iwan Humphreys has been ordered to pay more than £11,000
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