A NORTHERN businessman who illegally dumped waste into an open drain has been fined $5000.
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Relbia’s Phillip John Stone, as trustee for Nigel’s Pumping Service, was charged after breaching the state’s environmental regulations.
He was sentenced yesterday in Launceston Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to three counts of dumping waste improperly between July and October 2012.
The Environment Protection Authority prosecuted Stone after he was caught pouring up to 3000 litres of wastewater from Bell Bay into a drain at the entrance of a private driveway in Mount Direction.
The composition of the old Hydro power station’s general waste depended on how many people were using the site, which included toilets, showers and kitchen facilities.
On another occasion he dumped ‘‘controlled waste’’ into a caravan park’s pumping station at Scottsdale which triggered an overflow alarm with Ben Lomond Water.
An EPA investigation also established he’d poured controlled waste into a sewage station for RVs in Beaconsfield.
Magistrate Reg Marron said Stone had no prior history of offending and had not breached environmental regulations since.
Mr Marron awarded $3000 in costs to the EPA.
