‘Damn all’ done to lift boil notice in Limerick
CALLS have been made for a special meeting of the municipal district of Adare/Rathkeale as there is still no date for the lifting of a boil water notice affecting the Foynes/Shannon Estuary Public Water Supply in Limerick.
The water supply affecting Askeaton, Foynes, Ballyhahill, Loghill, Ballysteen, Pallaskenry, Kildimo and Shanagolden and surrounding areas was placed under a boil water notice, in May, due to high levels of cryptosporidium detected in the supply.
Plans were subsequently announced by Uisce Éireann to remove an ultraviolet reactor from its location in Cork to be re-installed in the Foynes/Shannon water plant on the Shannon Estuary.
The reactor renders the cryptosporidium in the water inactive.
However, it was revealed at the latest monthly meeting of the municipal district of Adare-Rathkeale that no works have been undertaken since May to prepare the Foynes site for the ultraviolet reactor.
Upon hearing this, the Cathaoirleac, Cllr Adam Teskey called for an urgent special meeting with representatives of Uisce Éireann in attendance.
“We were given a past and previous commitment that the ultraviolet reactor would be in place by the last quarter of this year. If they haven’t even started works at all, that’ll be of huge consternation,” Cllr Teskey said.
“When you have a water supply for 7,000 people and a boil water notice for months. It's shocking to hear they have done damn all.”