Concern over fishing as river polluted by sewage

ONE of the country’s best known rivers for trout and salmon fishing has been polluted after the body charged with protecting it allowed sludge from a sewage treatment plant into its waters.

Kilkenny’s River Nore is an EU-designated salmon river. But ammonia and suspended solids found in the river have been traced back to the county council’s sewage treatment plant, a damning report shows.

The council has admitted the offence and says it is doing all it can to rectify it.