Diesel flows into waterway
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A YORKSHIRE HAULIER has been fined £3,750 with £1,250 costs for polluting a controlled watercourse.
Nigel Rice Transport of Barmston Close, Beverley pleaded guilty to allowing diesel to enter Swinemoor Drain on 27 March 2003.
Beverley magistrates heard that a member of the public had called the Environment Agency to report oil in a local water course, the Beverley and Barmston Drain. Officers traced the source of the diesel to Nigel Rice Transport.The diesel had entered via Swinemoor Drain, which runs next to the firm's site. The operator had placed two fuel orders with separate companies. One of the orders was subsequently cancelled but no one at the firm realised that the fuel had already been delivered and
transferred to a storage tank at the site.
The second order was then delivered and also transferred to the tank — the excess diesel sprayed out of a gas vent pipe and ran into the nearby drain.
An EA spokesman says: "Companies need to take care when receiving deliveries of polluting substances.
Dealing with oil and diesel should not be taken lightly and companies should ensure they have the proper facilities and staff in place to deal with such deliveries."