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THE WATER SUPPLY is returning to normal in the greater Dublin area this morning following the second night of restrictions by local authorities.
Despite warnings in advance, the water shortage is not believed to have affected emergency services last night on what is usually one of the busiest nights of the year for call-outs. However businesses have strongly criticised the length and the timing of the restrictions.
Dublin City Council has said that the situation will be reviewed daily but that restrictions will remain in place until at least Monday. The Council said engineers are ‘working around the clock’ to identify the cause of the problem and to mitigate the effects.
(Pic: @CamdenKitchen/Twitter)
Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has said that the communication of the problem “could have been handled better”.
He said the problem was one that engineers have not “seen or experienced before” and that while “everything possible” is being done, he could not guarantee that the restrictions will be lifted by next Monday.
The water restriction lasts from 8 o’clock at night until 7 o’clock in the morning, but Dublin City Council has warned that it takes some time for water to return to all areas, depending on their location.
Local authorities have stressed that there is no problem with the quality of drinking water but advised that water may appear cloudy or white due to air in the water supply.
Popular Dublin restaurant Camden Kitchen tweeted a photograph (above) showing the colour of tap water just before the water supply was switched off.
Dublin City Council, which has been giving information on behalf of the four local authorities involved said the serious production problem at the Ballymore Eustace water treatment plant is ongoing.
Were you affected by the water restrictions? Talk about it in the comments.
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Is that a pic of someone’s tap water?!? Jesus
Just tiny air bubbles.
Boil it and the air will be driven out and it’ll be perfectly clear.
“Boil it and the air will be driven out and it’ll be perfectly clear”
Will the council pay for the electricity to boil kettles of water every day if it’s not clear?
Also, when we are forced to pay for water and road works result in the water being brown, will Irish Water give an allowance in your bill for the water you have to waste running the tap until the water is clean. I’ll give you one guess!
Not air bubbles, that’s lime and that’s what my water quality is like down in Tipperary! Can’t wait to pay for it, worth every cent a nice cold glass of lime. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm lime!
Just rang the Dublin City Council area office for the Crumlin area to inquire about the fact that @ 9.30am there’s still no water coming through our system, whether it be blue, cloudy, brown, pink or clear water! Now told it could be 10.30am before some residents have water coming through their system due to their particular area being charged up, what that means I don’t know! Initially ill-informed that restrictions would be from 8pm-7am, as the days go on, all I can now see is a smaller window to use drinkable water, adequate water for washing machines and showers etc…. What I’d like to know is exactly what is the problem and is this the start of continual water interruptions/restrictions? DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON WATER CHARGES! PAY FOR THIS? DON’T THINK SO!
What ya mean paying water charges for this? Sure of course you will.
Esb gets cut off the odd time. You’re bot using it when its off so you aint paying and noone complains. Same with irish water. These things do happen.
So anyway you will moan but you will pay water tax property tax your motor tax your paye and usc like a good lad
In fairness if it’s crumlin, most of South Dublin will be subsidising you.
I think the ELECTRIC being cut off and then not being able to use anything without the use of ELECTRICITY and therefore not paying for the ELECTRIC when it’s off is totally different to paying for WATER-CHARGES and still paying that WATER-CHARGE when there’s disruption to your water supply, especially when a massive percentage of our water system infrastructure is antiquated and there are constant leaks that let’s face it, we will still be paying for, not paying to fix either! Now, jog on, there’s a good lad!
‘If it’s Crumlin, most of South Dublin would be subsidising us’? Listen, Burch Barlow (You continue to hide behind that avatar, ye pillock). Why don’t you post something sensible instead of coming across as a cowardly snob and trying to put down one of the strongest, proudest communities within Dublin! Now if only you came out from behind your avatar, I’d gladly pay for a bucket of water to be chucked over you! Look forward to your mature (cowardly) response!
Strongest proudest communities…….in crime and teen pregnancy.
And where do you live, Disneyland?There’s crime and teen pregnancies happening throughout the entire country, not just Crumlin! I think you should leave the confines of your little bedroom, switch off your computer and stop watching your box sets of Walt Disney films and try live in the real world, if you can manage that much! Thanks, for showing your maturity and cowardice hiding behind your avatar as mentioned before! You’re actually proving to be quiet amusing for a coward!
Sorry I don’t recognise Sinn Fein. I love in Foxrock actually. Lovely place.
Niall Binead, you’re well-known, sir, for your lenient stance on crime. But suppose for a second that your house in Crumlin was ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the shed with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there’s too much water on the knob …
Another idiotic post from Mr. Burch Barlow! (This is not his real name folks, he’s hiding behind his avatar, to protect his identity, just in case he happens to do a bit of shopping in the Ashleaf or Crumlin shopping centres!) Don’t let me down, make sure you come back with your quick, mature wit, THEN AGAIN, I’ve better things to be doing with my time! Slán tamall!
Funny enough my girlfriend lives in Blackrock and she’s had water all day and night for the last week. I had a shower at about 3 in the morning yesterday night no problems at all. Was back at mine in tallaght around 5 and didn’t have a drop of water. Some areas just aren’t being affected. i.e the nice ones!
And long may the nice areas have water. The Sinn Fein Republican loyalist anti water person above has better things to do like go to blackrock for a shower. If you are nice they’ll let you. Keep well my friend, keep well.
What the F##k are you on about! Your post just didn’t make any sense! We are still talking about water charges I presume?? Lol….?
We are yeh.
By the way I wouldn’t be caught dead in either of those two holes. One is just an oversized Dunnes Stores and the other is the closest thing I’ve seen to resemble Chernobyl.
unnecessary comment Burch
Dear Burch Barlow, you’d seriously need to practice your wit! I’m going to claim the mature moral high ground here and won’t reply (I’ll try anyway) to your imbecilic, immature little quips any longer, as you sincerely are coming across as pretty pathetic! Have a nice day, wherever you are, thankfully it’s not Crumlin!
Well on that we can agree on.
I bet you shop in cornelscourt, that’s just an oversized Dunnes
Don’t shop in Dunnes. Donnybrook Fair is the place to go.
Burch Barlow, Ross O’Carroll Kelly called and he wants his attitude back.
Tell him I’ll call him.
If only we paid for water surely it would be ok then
It’s gone nine now and still no water…
I’ve loads of water… it will be some chat up line in the pub tonight… “have you water” “do you want to come back to my place for a bath… we can play hide the soap…. “
That water is just full of small air bubbles. It happens when water mains are turned off. The bubbles dissipate after a minute or so. It’s not blue, but the whiteness of the bubbles are possibly reflecting a blue colour in the room.
The problem caused 10 years ago..Dublin grew by almost 30% during the “boom” years..The supply reservoirs should have been increased over the last 10 years..As usual , the Irish Government did sweet f a..Now everybody wonders why we have a shortage.
In the ‘bust’ years though, its probably declined by nearly as much
You mean about 400k people left Dublin….Waffle…!!
Deffo much quieter than it was five years ago
In my part of this small island our water is regularly white and cloudy, this is caused from water being turned off for any given reason (burst water pipe being main one.)
You let the water sit for a minute until clear then it’s perfectly fine for drinking. That’s what the council says anyway! At least we’re not paying for it YET.
Same where I am! But I’ve tried letting a glass of water sit until it clears and then drinking it, and it is absolutely disgusting with an almost chemical taste to it. Even after boiling, we can still taste it in our tea and coffee. My dogs won’t even drink it, and believe me they’re not fussy about what they eat and drink!
But like someone else said, it’ll all be grand once we’re paying for it eh?
I completely don’t believe your dogs won’t drink the water after the air bubbles have settled. There are absolutely no added chemicals in any way shape or form when the water goes like that, it is solely down to the air bubbles. Stop being an attention seeker.
I’m far from an attention seeker. I don’t feel the need to lie and get attention from strangers, and certainly not in the comment section of thejournal! Maybe yoy think im attention seeking purely because im not cowardly hiding behind an avatar?
When this happens my dogs, namely my labrador, refuses to drink and gets physically sick unless I give her different water. It tastes totally different compared to when there’s no air in the system.
Wish I had an avatar
Well there’s absolutely nothing added or taken away from the water when there are bubbles in it so that’s technically impossible but fair enough.
Laura, any chance it’s extra chlorine you’re tasting? Sometimes done after maintenance to make sure things are clean, maybe the same thing here.
Unobtanium maybe?
Are we mad…Do we all accept this…??
I’m willing to accept that the council are doing necessary works on our water supply for reasons they would do better to explain but if it’s this or crypto-sporidium I’ll take this. Notice and timing and communication overall could be better. I think its in the public interest that we are told what it was that was the problem, and why it was so urgent.
My water hasn’t been restricted – Belgard area.
Probably because of the hospital. Rialto still has water, probably because it’s right between the coombe and james’s hospital as well as a fire station
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Why is Dublin City Council talking on behalf of all of Dublin? They aren’t in charge of me, they aren’t.
They are when it comes to the greater Dublin water supply. It’s a throw back to the old corpo days.
Tap into that river that Guinness ‘s Brewery takes from the mountains
I still have no water back its now 10:15 it was the same yesterday. I rang dun laoghaire rathdown co council to ask when it might be back to be told it was since 7am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I informed them I had no water my neighbors also rang to complain. Still no water!
No water in Collins Avenue at 13.52. If I had known, I’d have filled the kettle/saucepans but was told they wre night-time restrictions
I would really like to know if water is going to come back soon. I live in Dublin 4 and have been without water since yesterday morning. I can not take a shower. I can not do laundry. Why? It was supposed we were going to have restrictions by bight, right? :-(
Is that really blue water or just a white-balance measure messed up?
News said even if they get it sorted early in the week it will still take a few days to build up the supply again,next weekend l would say.
Its 11.15 and still no water!!!!!
News on the radio this morning said that the remediation work isn’t going to plan and the restrictions may go on into mid next week.
Still no water at 13.48 in Beaumont/CollinsAve. No warning of daytime restrictions. Why not?Babies have to be washed, fed etc. Please retweet
Retweeting now intergalactic space messenger #709990 over BRZZZAP *poof*
Living in lucan and had no restrictions. But I am sure if they keep the restrictions going I could be affected. Can’t imagine the quality of water will improve when we start paying for it
Was in the pub on Thursday night. Went to the jax. No water. Couldn’t wash my hands. Devastated.
No water AT ALL today in Portobello. NOT impressed.
This was the same colour of water in work today! Wouldn’t want to ask for a glass of tap water out and be served that !
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