Textiles company fined for fish death leak
Date published: 19 May 2009
A textiles firm from Littleborough has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £2,552 costs for a pollution spillage which killed 300 fish in Ealees Brook.
Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd pleaded guilty to the offence in May last year and were today (Tuesday 19 May) ordered to pay the pine.
The spillage of hydrochloric acid and chloride into the brook and adjoining River Roch was caused by a pump failure.
Since the accident the company has worked with the Environment Agency to install pollution prevention measures.
The company supplies woven glass fabrics to makers of non-metallic armour.
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