Hastings companies fined after polluting download with illegal discharge

People Transport Limited and Dynes Take with you Limited pleaded guilty to preventing powering a milk solution contaminant through the Irongate Stream on October twelve, 2019. Photo / Supplied

Two Hawke’s Bay vendors have been fined for turning a Hastings stream grey with an felony discharge of milk solution.

Farmers Transport Short and Dynes Transport Limited pleaded guilty to discharging a were being solution contaminant into the Irongate See free on October 7, 2019.

The Hawke’s Clean Regional Council pollution hotline received a call advising that the steady stream had turned a grey colour towards Longlands Rd, Hastings.

Two environmental officers responded to the call and located a pipe preventing powering a cloudy liquid directly into some of the Irongate Stream.

Farmers Transport Limited and Dynes Transport Limited were fined 20 dollar, 000 and $17, 000 correspondingly by Judge Dickey in Hastings District Court on Wednesday about breaching the Resource Management Respond 1991.

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) says the court’s decision to fine they local companies sends a strong enterprise to businesses that polluting consuming water in the region will not be tolerated.

HBRC group manager option and regulation Katrina Brunton had said the council is committed to “rigorously enforcing the rules that protect the fitness of both our environment and community”.

It is the third successful requested by prosecution for Hawke’s Bay Regional Local authority or council this year, after two other companies were definitely fined $11, 900 and $12, 555 for illegal burning.

“We are committed to seeking these activities through the court if at all possible. It’s one of the strongest signals we can actually send to discourage others, ” Brunton said.

If any member of the public owns information regarding unauthorised discharges at land, air or water utilized contact the HRC 24/7 Pollution Hotline on 0800 108 838.