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A BOIL WATER NOTICE that has been impacting over 600,000 people has been lifted.
A meeting took place this afternoon to make a decision on whether to remove the restrictions which were in place for parts of Dublin, Kildare, and Meath for the past week.
The notice affected people who are supplied by the Leixlip Water Treatment Plant.
Irish Water said following consultation and in agreement with the HSE, Irish Water and Fingal County Council, the notice is lifted for customers supplied by Leixlip Water Treatment Plant with immediate effect.
It said the EPA’s audit of the old Leixlip Plant on Friday and the satisfactory results of a number of water samples were factors in the decision.
The EPA is expected to publish the findings of its audit next week. Irish Water said the agency was able to see how the old plant had been optimised with additional staffing and monitoring and daily water testing.
Niall Gleeson, managing director of Irish Water, said:
“Irish Water acknowledge and understand the impact of this boil water notice on the 600,000 people affected and we sincerely regret the inconvenience.
We endeavoured to keep the public up to date at every stage and we are grateful to the media, elected representatives and members of the public who shared the information on social media and who supported family, friends and neighbours.”
“We are grateful to our partners in Fingal County Council who worked with us to provide all of the necessary information to the HSE and EPA to facilitate the lifting of this boil water notice.”
Gleeson said the plant at Leixlip remains vulnerable and Irish Water will be working with the council to minimise the risk of another boil water notice.
He said Irish Water has maximised the processes to build resilience while also diverting water from Ballymore Eustace, the country’s biggest water treatment plant, to decrease pressure on the old plant at Leixlip.
“Working with Fingal County Council we are increasing the monitoring and staffing at the plant while also increasing the water testing. The ultimate solution is to replace the filters at the old plant and this process is being accelerated as quickly and safely as possible while still maintaining supply to the greater Dublin area,” he explained.
“If we could, we would shut down the old plant, take it off line and do all the refurbishment at once. This is not possible because 20% of Dublin’s water supply comes from the Old Plant and we do not have the spare capacity to allow this to happen.”
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Throw him into a cell and leave him there until after Christmas.
Give the culprit free legal aid , 3 meals a day in prison , free access to education , 1/3 off for remission that he doesn’t have to earn. Get the eejits that work to pay for it , & take a few euro off the pensioners & disabled to fund it .., god bless Fine Gael .. Soft on crime but tough on the law abiding citizen .
How can this be ok to do. A 70 year kid man attacked by 2 sc€mbags. They’ll both be laughing about this over Christmas while that man will never be ok to pick up people again. So on top of the assault and theft this poor guys livelihood is probably finished. These thugs will get free legal aid a slap on the wrist and set free to do it all again.
This country is gone to the dogs. They should make a public spectacle if people like this. They speak of human rights but what about that taxi drivers rights. Aghhhhhhh
Sickening
As a Taxi Driver in Tralee and some that represents all taxi drivers on the Taxi Advisory Committee I wish to condemn this attack on an innocent taxi driver out trying to make a living.
This taxi driver is no out of work for the Christmas and New Year.
I’m calling on the public to please respect Taxi Drivers during this busy period and if you do happen to see a driver in difficulty stop and help him/her.
Taxis in other countries are all fitted with Web cameras front and back of vehicle. It probably would have prevented this and at worst would have identified the coward who ran away.
Fit web cameras in all taxis, it will protect your drivers. This could have been spotted at Base but more than likely would not have happened because of fitted cameras.
Have them sweep the streets with a tooth brush
Castrate them..sure it does the dogs on the street good. Calms them down ten fold.
Typical cork behavior. Sean been buggered
Another man fascinated by Cork.
I should explain my comment lads. It was directed at Sean T Bugger, a cork native, who has a snide comment to make everytime anything happens on Dublin’s northside. No offense meant to anyone else.
Get a room then.
fantasti;c information with your journal my e mail address is danielgreydog@YAHOO.CO.UK LEFT GLANMIRE WHEN I WAS 20YROLD BUT STILL KEEP IN TOUCH WIT WHAT IS GOING ON IN CORK AM 78 NOW HAPPYY DAYS SPENT IN GLANMIRE
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