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  1. 2019

    Irish Water fined over sewage pollution at Malahide Marina

    Fine or penalty

    Irish Water pleaded guilty to offences under wastewater discharge regulations after a treatment-plant malfunction led to raw sewage overflowing into Malahide Marina in 2018. The company was fined €1,500 and ordered to pay expenses and legal costs.

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    • This resulted in raw sewage overflowing from tanks in the facility into the nearby marina.
    • Irish Water pleaded guilty to offences under the Waste Water Discharge (Authorisation) Regulations 2007 following the malfunction of a treatment plant in the north Co Dublin town on 28 April 2018. The company was fined €1,500 and ordered to pay €850 for expenses and €5,000 towards legal costs.
    • Brendan Kissane, inspector for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which brought the case, told the court that the incident occurred after one of the plant’s three pumps had been removed, and the other two failed four days later on a day when the facility was not staffed full-time.
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