The incident occurred in May at Kimberly-Clark's Unifibres Mill at Prudhoe, which manufactures toilet tissues from recycled paper. Effluent containing ammonia at concentrations some 100 times higher than the norm was discharged into the river Tyne, killing about 100 mature salmon and forcing Newcastle & Gateshead Water Company to close a nearby water intake.
On 3 September, Hexham magistrates court was told that the incident was cause
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