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<blockquote data-quote="yoki" data-source="post: 8933746" data-attributes="member: 2923"><p>Not that simple I'm afraid.</p><p></p><p>The biggest water treatment works in Mid-Antrim is upstream from us and I'm along the river every day, there's no sewage in it.</p><p></p><p>However, just about every dairy farm in the area now has their cows housed 365 days of the year, with slurry being spread all summer, frequently on to hard ground, with resultant high levels of run-off.</p><p></p><p>Those same cows being fed ever increasing levels of concentrate as well, Northern Ireland's imports of animal feeds been increasing steadily over the past decades.</p><p></p><p>Slurry ban not helping either, plenty of good spreading weather during November and January mostly having to be passed up on.</p><p></p><p>That run-off is all ending up in one place, Lough Neagh.</p><p></p><p>There may be other factors but agriculture is undoubtedly a huge part of the problem.</p><p></p><p>No point trying to deny it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yoki, post: 8933746, member: 2923"] Not that simple I'm afraid. The biggest water treatment works in Mid-Antrim is upstream from us and I'm along the river every day, there's no sewage in it. However, just about every dairy farm in the area now has their cows housed 365 days of the year, with slurry being spread all summer, frequently on to hard ground, with resultant high levels of run-off. Those same cows being fed ever increasing levels of concentrate as well, Northern Ireland's imports of animal feeds been increasing steadily over the past decades. Slurry ban not helping either, plenty of good spreading weather during November and January mostly having to be passed up on. That run-off is all ending up in one place, Lough Neagh. There may be other factors but agriculture is undoubtedly a huge part of the problem. No point trying to deny it. [/QUOTE]
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