Three State agencies are investigating a fish kill on a tributary of the Shannon, river, near Ballina in Co Tipperary. Inland Fisheries Ireland said it received reports of a dead fish floating in Ballycorrigan stream near the confluence with the Shannon. Inland Fisheries Ireland said the dead fish were all discovered in a 100-metre stretch of water downstream of the Ballina Waste water Treatment Plant discharge pipe. Investigations have indicated maintenance works carried out during the day in the Ballina waste water treatment plant “may have caused a deleterious or polluting effluent to discharge to this stretch of river causing the observed fish mortality”, the fisheries organisation said. The organisation said it was in contact with Inland Fisheries Ireland and the EPA on the issue.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 15:33 UTC