Friday 17 September, 2021
Around 5,000 fish mortalities have been estimated.
It’s understood they died due to “a significant algal bloom”.
Fruit is cooking from the inside out and wildlife is dying as temperatures continue to soar.
A local councillor has called on Irish Water to explain how it will protect the river.
Around 450 of the 500-strong stock has died.
Fisheries Ireland says a large discharge of raw slurry into the Owentaraglin River, a tributary of the Blackwater, is likely to have caused the fish kill.
It took around six hours to clean the river after the incident on Saturday morning.
Inland Fisheries Ireland said it is following a definite line of enquiry but it will take years for the river to recover.
Alma Hygiene will have to pay almost €35,000.
“Virtually nothing has been left alive,” say Inland Fisheries.
Salmon and trout were killed in Kilmallock in Limerick.
