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Magherafelt District Council
50 Ballyronan Road
Magherafelt
BT45 6EN

t:028 7939 7979

Controlling pollution in the Magherafelt area

The Environmental Health department are also responsible for investigating pollution in the Magherafelt area and enforcing the laws created to protect the environment.

Inside a night club representing noise pollution

A considerable proportion of complaints made to the EH Department relate to noise pollution from industrial, commercial or domestic sources.

Power Plant Chimney Stacks representing industrial pollution

In Northern Ireland, a new system of air pollution control arising from industrial sources was introduced in 1998.

Circle of skydivers in freefall representing clean air

In the UK, a National Air Quality Strategy (NAQS) lays out the plans devised by the Government and devolved administrations to protect and improve air quality. The following pollutants are considered in the strategy document:

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