EPA fine Moree man for pesticide spray drift

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) issued a penalty notice to after garden plants on a neighbouring property were damaged from the “spray drift”.

EPA’s Armidale region acting manager Lindsay Fulloon said the offence served as a timely reminder to pesticide users to take all necessary precautions to prevent pesticide spray drift. “People applying or using pesticides must ensure they do so in a way that doesn’t impact adjoining properties or on non-target crops, vegetation, animals or waterways. In this instance pesticides had drifted from the property to the garden of the adjoining property,” Mr Fulloon said.