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20/06/2014
Man Sentenced Over Tyre Waste Offences
A man has been sentenced to 240 hours of community service at L'Derry Crown Court for breaches of waste management legislation.
45-year-old James Joseph Heaney of Spruce Meadows, L'Derry received his sentence at Londonderry Crown Court after being convicted on four waste counts.
During July and November 2008, officers from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) investigated two sites operated by Mr Heaney at Pennyburn Industrial Estate and Campsie Real Estate in L'Derry where large amounts of waste tyres had been deposited. The tyres had been processed through a tyre 'crumbing' machine where the waste tyres were ground down and the casing wire separated.
But the two sites were abandoned in 2009 with around 20,000 tyres deposited at the Pennyburn site and approximately 385,500 tyres left at the Campsie site.
Then the two sites were subject to arson attacks. The Pennyburn site was set on fire on 18 August 2009 and the Campsie site on 4 October 2009. A primary school in Eglington was forced to close during the Campsie fire, which took four days to bring under control and involved around 70 fire fighters and eight pumps.
Contaminated water run-off from the fire then entered the storm water drainage system and a stream that bounds the eastern perimeter of the site.
NIEA’s Water Management Unit and the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service placed control measures into the water system and the stream to reduce the potential for pollution.
(IT/CD)
45-year-old James Joseph Heaney of Spruce Meadows, L'Derry received his sentence at Londonderry Crown Court after being convicted on four waste counts.
During July and November 2008, officers from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) investigated two sites operated by Mr Heaney at Pennyburn Industrial Estate and Campsie Real Estate in L'Derry where large amounts of waste tyres had been deposited. The tyres had been processed through a tyre 'crumbing' machine where the waste tyres were ground down and the casing wire separated.
But the two sites were abandoned in 2009 with around 20,000 tyres deposited at the Pennyburn site and approximately 385,500 tyres left at the Campsie site.
Then the two sites were subject to arson attacks. The Pennyburn site was set on fire on 18 August 2009 and the Campsie site on 4 October 2009. A primary school in Eglington was forced to close during the Campsie fire, which took four days to bring under control and involved around 70 fire fighters and eight pumps.
Contaminated water run-off from the fire then entered the storm water drainage system and a stream that bounds the eastern perimeter of the site.
NIEA’s Water Management Unit and the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service placed control measures into the water system and the stream to reduce the potential for pollution.
(IT/CD)
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