Anti-pollution charity River Action has won the first stage of a legal fight against the Environment Agency over pollution to the River Wye
The excessive spreading of chicken manure on farmland is leading to the pollution of the River Wye, a court heard.
The High Court in Cardiff heard that statutory guidance from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , states land managers should avoid spreading manure during a crop rotation that raises phosphorus in soil above a certain level unless it is not reasonably practicable to do so, or they have taken all appropriate precautions to prevent any diffuse agricultural pollution.
“There is no dispute that the most significant cause of that phosphate problem is what is known as agricultural diffuse pollution. “We are concerned with the large-scale shovelling of manure from large sheds full of chickens onto the land,” he added.
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