date:Jul 29, 2014
Western Australian milk producer, Brownes has been fined $100,000 for polluting a creek near its Brunswick production facility with waste milk.
A ruptured seal in a milk silo caused somewhere between 70,000 litres and 140,000 litres of waste to spill into a Brunswick creek in the nearby Elvira Gully in November 2011, The West reports.
Magistrate Kelvin Fisher heard that the spill caused fish to die, in addition to producing a rotting odour that affected residents that lived nearby.
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