A cracked pipe in a water treatment works caused the chemical leak that killed 1,600 fish in a County Down river, Northern Ireland Water has said.

NI Water has offered to restock the Annsborough River, near Newcastle, after the fish kill on Saturday.

Its head of environmental regulation, Angela Halpenny, said her company was “extremely sorry to learn of this very unfortunate incident”….

BBC News 11/10/2016  Read the full article ‘Annsborough River: Cracked pipe caused chemical leak that killed fish’

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