Firm fined for blood and offal in stream

Dec 23 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A KIRKLEES firm has been fined after polluting a dyke with poultry blood and offal.

Al-Ummah Halal Poultry, a chicken processing firm, yesterday pleaded guilty at Wakefield Magistrates’ Court.

It had polluted Hemp Dyke in Barnsley in November 2007.

The company, of Manor Road, Soothill, Batley, was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £2,953.58 and a victim surcharge of £15.

Environment Agency officials saw a red plume in Hemp Dyke, coming from a partly-submerged pipe.

The pipe was traced back to a culvert in a field next to the company’s chicken factory.

The field was saturated and found to contain blood clots, feathers, poultry offal and particles of eggshell.