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RESIDENTS IN AFFECTED areas of Clontarf are being told to continue to boil tap water for drinking and cooking while further tests are carried out.
The problems with water in the St. Lawrence’s District Meter Area have been ongoing since last Monday, when residents in around 1,400 homes were told not to use their tap water, even if it had been boiled.
Later last week residents were told that following bacterial tests water could be boiled for use. The affected area lies between the Howth Road and Castle Avenue and from the Howth Road at Collins Avenue to Clontarf Road.
The most recent update – which a Dublin City Council spokesperson told TheJournal.ie this morning still stands – indicates that tap water can be used directly for bathing, washing dishes and doing laundry, but that it must be boiled for consumption.
Dublin City Council has confirmed that no E. Coli has been detected in any of the water samples tested to date, but that some of the samples have indicated the presence of Total Coliforms above the standards set out in the Water Supply Regulations.
The council is reassuring residents that Total Coliform bacteria are not likely to cause illness.
Testing is to continue in the coming days and Dublin City Council has said it is:
… very appreciative of the resident’s forebearance and the courtesy and support of our tanker crews and water service staff as they work to identify the location of the problem.
Water tankers will be available on Castle Avenue at Kincora Avenue and on St. Lawrence Road at the Howth Road until 7.30pm this evening.
What are Total Coliforms?
The presence of certain bacteria such as total coliforms may not necessarily mean an actual risk to human health but does provide a warning of a failure in water treatment or in the integrity of the distribution system.
While E. coli is the only member of the total coliform group that is found exclusively in faeces, other members of the group are found naturally in water, soil and vegetation, as well as in faeces.
In a distribution system, public health decisions should not be based solely on the presence of total coliforms, in the absence of E. Coli, unless the investigation indicates a problem that results in a threat to public health.
Total coliforms do not just come from human and animal waste. They may also come from soil, vegetation, insects etc. Their presence is typically not tolerated in drinking water supplies.
Are you affected by the water disruption? Let us know how it’s going. Email tips@thejournal.ie
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The cases mix up the cost of designing the logo and mark with the cost of implementing it. The BP rebrand was so expensive because of how much signage had to be changed all over the world.
If it is done on a gradual basis (as Irish Rail are doing for example) it costs very little. You just renew signage with the new mark as the old signage wears out.
Quite often these rebrands are supposed to be internally symbolic. They mark a major change in an organisation’s development. The costs of these changes of direction are usually confounded with the rebranding.
Imagine being payed 1.4million by the BBC and having the audacity to produce that. By no means a bad logo but sure someone at the BBC could have rustled that up themselves
According to this, I’m actually worth about €78 million.
Catch you drips later.
10 and 11 were ripped off
“Hey we have millions here to spend on a new logo”
“Hang on a second and let me open Microsoft Word”
I think the last couple are misleading. They are not the cost of the logo but of rebranding. That includes changing every petrol station and van/tanker logos in BPs case. British airways changed all their tail fins some years ago and I think it was 100 million. Then they changed them back as so many People complained.
Accenture? Ass-enter more like….
Ha! Classic!
Every time i see the olympics logo it just looks like lisa Simpson going down on bart, how was this not noticed before it was released?
BBC. 1.4 million. Seriously?
Accenture IT consultants in my opinion are the biggest chancers and spoofers in the business.
Red sells…
The Google, Coca Cola, Twitter logos have been redesigned multiple times. The designers who did that work were paid.
Most of the large amounts were for more than just a logo design and many of the low amounts are highly questionable. If windows logos were designed internally the staff’s wages are still an expense that has to be accounted for.
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