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12 February 2012 - 11:53 am NZ time
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Farm owners and sharemilker fined for effluent spills
Updated at 4:24 pm on 30 July 2010
Two Hauraki dairy farm owners and a sharemilker have been fined more than $40,000 in the Hamilton District Court for illegal discharges of effluent.
They were charged in August last year, after a helicopter monitoring programme carried out by the Waikato Regional Council found dairy effluent had overflowed into farm drains on two properties.
The council says the fines should serve as a warning to all dairy farmers, and it advises them to check their effluent systems to avoid prosecution.
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