Essential overnight water supply restrictions required in some areas of Tipperary
Customers across the county urged to conserve water as demand increases
Uisce Éireann, working in partnership with Tipperary County Council, advises customers in Rosegreen and surrounding areas that essential night-time water restrictions are required, starting tonight, to help reservoir levels recover.
Continued high demand for water, combined with the ongoing low rainfall levels, has resulted in local reservoirs levels depleting to unsatisfactory levels.
As a result, and to help water levels refill to a satisfactory standard, an overnight restriction is required tonight, Tuesday June 6 from 8pm until 8am tomorrow.
During this time, customers in the following areas will experience low pressure and/or outages: Rosegreen, Rathmacarthy, Rathsallagh, Tullamaine, Lowesgreen, Stephenstown, Ballyduagh, Rathordan and surrounding areas. It can take two to three hours following low pressure for normal supply to be fully restored to all areas as water refills the network.
In addition to restrictions at Rosegreen, customers located at higher elevations of the network in Cashel town will experience reduced pressure and/or intermittent supply. This is due to low reservoir levels as a result of the high demand for water.
Meanwhile, Uisce Éireann, working in partnership with Tipperary County Council, advises customers in Silverfort on the Fethard Regional Water Supply Scheme and surrounding areas that essential night-time water restrictions are required starting tonight to help manage supply. Continued high demand for water has resulted in significant reduction in water pressure and the complete loss of supply to some customers, with restrictions required to manage the supply.
To help manage water supply, an overnight restriction is required tonight, Tuesday June 6, from 10pm until 8am tomorrow.
During this time, customers in the following areas will experience low pressure and/or outages: Silverfort, Foulkstown, Coleraine, Rathclough and surrounding areas. It can take two to three hours following low pressure for normal supply to be fully restored to all areas as water refills the network.
An alternative water supply will be available at Silverfort Cross until supplies have returned to normal. 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.
Reservoir levels and water demand will continue to be monitored and further restrictions may be required. Further updates will be issued.
Communities across Tipperary are urged to be mindful of their water usage, as increased domestic and commercial demand is being exacerbated by warm weather conditions.