Probe into waste control

FARM waste management and pollution control on up to 250 farms on the Limerick-Cork border is to come under close investigation.

In one of the biggest crackdowns on pollution control so far undertaken in Co Limerick, the County Council will investigate all farms adjoining and adjacent to the Banogue river in West Limerick.

Farm organisation leaders in the county have been informed by the Environment Section of the Council that the Banogue river is “almost dead”, and efforts will now be made to trace all possible sources of pollution contributing to the decline in the quality of water in the river, both farming and other sources.