Hi, I am very new to this forum, but as a member of the Agivey Anglers Association, I feel compelled to start this, and listen to opinions from fellow anglers.

The Agivey River(as some of you know, and fished) is situated in the north west of N. Ireland and flows into the River Bann. At present there is a Landfill site in operation close to a tributary of the river, which we have prosecuted the previous owner on two occasions for pollution, and he also served some time for his troubles. The site, now under a new owner, continues to grow and expand.

Not happy with this, two other businesses wish to start up landfill sites along other tributaries of the river, one is at an early planning stage, the other at an advanced stage. If approved, there will be 3 major landfill sites all within 4 milles (as the crow flies) of each other, with any accidental leakage all flowing downstream into the river.

There is a residents action group which we are involved with, and we are fighting hard with planning/government to reject any planning approval.

Any thoughts.................

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They have an irish section and it would be a good idea to post it there, you will get a good response there. If you make a petition, everyone will sign it!

I fish the wee agivey btw

I recall the fish on the Agivey drying out in the fields after the smart drainage scheme a while back.....all we need is sh!t oozing from a landfill site.....people get payed megga bucks for these great idea,s you know??

getting paid mega bucks to make **** decisions without a 2nd thought of what has happened in the past and will most likely happen again. fact the goverment dont really care for the angling side of things they tend to do more damage than good

80% of drinking water comes from Lough Neagh these days,.....all these fish kills on rivers leading into the lough and not a word on drinking water??...hmmmmm....strange no-one complains.

isnt your drinking water filtered? i thought that drinking water was filtered and treated before it gets to your tap??

Cheers bootsy,

I'll post it there too.

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Good man, if you make a petition I could see 500+ signatures easy.

Who exactly could I email to show my concern over landfill sites on the agivey river?

I have grown up, watching each of the rivers I fished as a child becoming more and more void of fish. A pollution spill wiped out the ballymoney river last year and worst of all, I reported the sewage leak 3 times and every time they told me there was nothing wrong.

Next thing I know there are brownies dead right down to the mouth of the burn, so many proper 2 pound trout and some going into 4 - 5 pound, pure wild browns wiped out. I can not tell you how angry it makes me.

No truer words spoken..................

The angling club have being lobbying Stormont, local mla's, tourism, etc. but no-one seems to care, and we have the river internationals next year(2011) which will bring anglers from Scotland, England, Wales and all of Ireland to the area.

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Thanks for the concern,

We have been getting signatures on the planning objections and addendums, the local residents group have been doing some brilliant work, i also have Fish Legal on the job, their doing some good work also.

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Genuinely mate all the very best for the cause I really am very concerned for you!

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Clive M