Northern Ireland Water has been fined £7,500 for polluting a waterway with sewage. The discharge came from its Saintfield Waste Water Treatment Works to the Carson’s Dam River. In May last year a Water Quality Inspector from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency found the sewage sludge on the stream-bed and a discoloured discharge. Samples taken […]

Northern Ireland Water has been fined £300 for a pollution offence. It pleaded guilty for a “polluting discharge” from the Ros-Na-Rig Wastewater Pumping Station (WWPS) at Islandmagee. A Senior Water Quality Inspector, acting on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, found a waterway at Lunnon Road cloudy with grey fungal growth and also detected […]

Northern Ireland Water has improved its efficiency – saving £12 million through reduced running costs. According to its annual report for the year up to March, the savings were made through voluntary redundancies as well as more efficient procurement, sourcing contracts internally and making better use of in-house skills. It beat the target for operating […]