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The Lusty Beg Island resort has been fined £15,000 for causing pollution to the Lower Lough Erne river in Northern Ireland.
In July 2016 a water quality inspector (WQI) visited the establishment to investigate a report of sewage from the treatment plant serving the resort, stating that the “shoreline was grey in colour and smelled of detergent”.
One month later the inspector returned to speak with management from the business, who explained that a discharge was coming from the resort’s laundry block.
Visit were made again by the WQI in February, May and June this year, who confirmed that the pollution was still ongoing. Samples collected in February 2017 revealed ‘poisonous and polluting matter, posing a potentially harmful threat to the aquatic life’.
The hotel was convicted of releasing sewage effluent into the surrounding waterway by Enniskillen Magistrates’ Court.
