Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant requested information on all incident reports indicated as high severity incidents and medium severity incidents upon the Six Mile Water, all fish kill assessments that you hold, records of enforcement action taken that relates to any of those incident reports, the June 2008 biological investigation into the cause of the fish kill on the Six Mile Water, the October 2008 baseline biological survey for the Six Mile Water system and where a survey did not result in a published report, to provide appropriate interpretation of the information so that the information disclosed is accessible to me. The Commissioner-�s decision is that the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (-�the Department-�) has correctly applied the exceptions under regulations 13(1) and 12(5)(b) of the EIR. However, the Department has breached regulations 11 and 14 (2) and (3) of the EIR.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: EIR 11 - Complaint Upheld, EIR 12.5.b - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 13 - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 14 - Complaint Upheld, EIR 14 - Complaint Upheld