Gloucestershire farmer fined for slurry pollution due to leaking pipe
7th October 2025
A Gloucestershire farmer has been ordered to pay over £7,000 for discharging slurry into a river due to a leaking pipe.
Timothy Juckes of Tredington House Farm, located near Tewkesbury, pleaded guilty to illegally discharging slurry into the River Swilgate on 14th and 15th November 2022.
He was fined £1,086, ordered to pay costs of £5,528.50 and a victim’s surcharge of £434.
The court was told that the Environment Agency received reports of pollution at Tredington on 16th November 2022.
The defendant told the officers he had started pumping slurry from one lagoon to another on 14th November. He had laid the pipe within the watercourse.
Mr Juckes said he would normally support the pipe over the river but on this occasion did not want to carry equipment on a tractor across a wet reseeded field.
He added that he did not put the pipe across the bridge as he was tending sheep, and a stock box could not get over the bridge with the pipe there.
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