Irish Water pollution incidents that get to court

There’s no easy way to aggregate all previous Irish Water prosecutions for pollution. Here’s a couple of examples from this week:

Irish Water pleads guilty to polluting habitat of endangered mussel in Co Cork

Ammonia and orthophosphate discharges from firm’s Boherbue plant at multiples of permitted levels

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/irish-water-pleads-guilty-to-polluting-habitat-of-endangered-mussel-in-co-cork-1.4685114

‘Third-world’ water treatment plant dumped five swimming pools of raw sewage into river

Irish Water was fined €7,000 and agreed to pay costs

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-40708463.html

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