Gardaí to track ‘rogue trader’ disposing of effluent in drains

GARDAÍ are to be called in to track down a “rogue trader” who has the potential to poison public drinking water supplies and wipe out fish life in rivers.

Senior county council officials expressed serious concern yesterday after it emerged that a person is pouring tanker loads of slurry, chip shop oil and the contents of septic tanks into drains in the east Cork region.

Over the last six to eight months he has struck approximately eight times in Midleton.