Customers of more south Tipperary water schemes impacted by water outages and low pressure

Uisce Éireann and Tipperary County Council have issued an updated statement announcing they are now aware of a low pressure and water outages impacting up to 30,000 customers supplied by the Galtee Regional, Ardfinnan Regional and Carrick on Suir (Linguan) Public Water Supply Schemes.

These have been caused by operational issues at each of the three water treatment plants. 

Remedial works have been delayed due to the industrial strike action arising from a dispute between the Unite trade union and seven Local Authorities, which is taking place between Wednesday, August 2, and Friday, August 4 inclusive. 

It is anticipated that works at each of the plants will not commence until Saturday, August 5 when the strike action has ceased.

As a result, normal water supply may not be restored to impacted customers until Sunday, August 6 with the remainder having supply returned on Monday, August 7 and Tuesday, August 8. 

Uisce Éireann and Tipperary County Council wish to advise that customers supplied by the Galtee Regional Public Water Supply, which supplies approximately 15,000 customers, may now be experiencing loss of supply in many areas.

However, there are additional water treatment plants operating which normally supplement the Cashel area. Therefore, some customers in the Cashel area will experience reduced pressure instead of a loss of supply.

Customers supplied by the Galtee Regional Public Water Supply will be impacted in the following areas: Emly, Lattin, Ballinard, Cullen, Ballywire, Kilross, Limerick Junction, Monard, Lisvarnane, Rosadrehid, Bansha, Tankerstown, Kilfeacle, Golden, Cashel, Rosegreen, New Inn and surrounding areas.

To support impacted customers, Uisce Éireann has arranged the delivery of an alternative water supply with drinking water to the following locations which will remain in place until water is returned all customers:

Mount Bruis National School 

Cullen Village

Lisvernane Village 

New Inn 

Rosegreen Village 

Rossidrehid Village 

Monard Village 

Bansha Village 

Emly Village 

Lattin Village 

Tesco Car Park, Cashel 

Dominic Street, Cashel 

Castle Green Avenue, Cashel 

Dean Ryan Terrace, Cashel 

Oliver Plunkett Terrace, Cashel

Approximately 11,000 customers supplied by the Ardfinnan Regional Public Water Supply may be impacted in the following areas: Ardfinnan, Grange, Knocklofty, Newcastle, Ballyclerihan, Cahir (Clonmel side of the bridge, Tipperary Road and Mitchelstown Road (R913), Ballingarrane (as far as the Cahir road roundabout Clonmel),Market Hill and Red City area (Fethard), Kilnamack West, Co Waterford. The Graigue Group Water Scheme supplied by Ardfinnan Public Water Supply is also affected.

To support impacted customers, Uisce Éireann is currently arranging the delivery of alternative water supplies with clean drinking water to the following location(s) which will be in place from 6pm today, August 3: Ardfinnan, Newcastle, Clogheen, Knocklofty, Grange and Goatenbridge. 

Customers are reminded that both the Ardfinnan Regional Public Water Supply and the Galtee Regional Public Water Supply are currently on Boil Water Notices due to operational issues at the water treatment plants.

Approximately 3,900 customers supplied by the Carrick-on-Suir (Linguan) Public Water Supply may be impacted by low pressure or outages in the following areas including: Friar Street Upper, Corpse Road, Rack Hill, South Quay and Bridge Street. 

To support impacted customers, Uisce Éireann has arranged the delivery of alternative water supplies with clean drinking water to the following location(s): Ash Park, Cregg Lawn, St. John’s Terrace, Strand Lane and Carrickbeg. 

In all instances, customers are reminded to use their own containers when taking water from the tanker and to boil water before consumption as a precautionary measure as per HSE advice.

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

"Our priority remains the protection of public health and the environment through the delivery of safe, secure and sustainable water services where possible during this dispute, and we will do everything within our power to maintain safe water services," said an Uisce Éireann spokesperson. 

Uisce Éireann’s Regional Operations Manager Jim Fitzgerald said: “This dispute is not with Uisce Éireann and is outside our control. However, it will regrettably impact Uisce Éireann customers. We have stood up our incident management team and are working closely with management in the local authorities to ensure that contingency plans are in place to minimise and manage disruptions to water and wastewater services.

The Uisce Éireann customer care helpline is open 24/7 on 1800 278 278 and customers can also contact us on Twitter @IWCare with any queries. For updates please visit the Water Supply Updates section of the Uisce Éireann website.