Crews working to restore water supply for customers in Limerick village

UISCE Éireann is working to restore water supply as quickly as possible to customers in Kilbehenny village and Mitchelstown north following a shutdown of the Galtees Water Treatment Plant due to heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours.   

As a result, customers in these areas may experience low pressure and/or interruptions to their water supply.

Dedicated water services engineers are onsite working to get the water treatment plant back into operation as soon as possible. 

It is anticipated that normal supply should be restored tonight.

Speaking about the unplanned outage, Water Operations Lead for Uisce Éireann, Niall O’Riordan said: "The effects of the heavy rainfall forced the water treatment plant to shutdown.

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"Expert crews are still onsite working hard to get it back into operation as soon as possible and restore customers’ water supply. We regret any inconvenience as a result of this issue and thank the local community for their patience."

Vulnerable customers who have registered with Uisce Éireann receive direct communications for planned and unplanned outages lasting more than four hours.

The Uisce Éireann customer care helpline is open 24/7 on 1800 278 278 and customers can also contact them on X (formerly Twitter) @IWCare with any queries.

For updates please visit the Water Supply Updates section on www.water.ie