PHOTO: SUPPLIED Pollock Farms’ sump effluent system had only one days worth of storage for its 700 cows.
A Cambridge farming company has been fined a record $131,840 for illegally discharging cow effluent into the environment.
It is the largest total fine imposed on a Waikato farm since the Resource Management Act became law in 1991 and comes after the same farmer faced previous convictions for dirty dairying.
The company, Pollock Farms and director Dawson Craig Pollock were convicted of eight charges under the RMA. Pollock operates a dairy farm on Victoria Road near Cambridge.
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