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Flooding at Killeenmore in 2020
A group of County Kildare residents experienced flooding “as bad as ever” recently despite measures being taken to find a solution.
A Naas Municipal District meeting was told by Cllr Carmel Kelly said residents in Killeenmore, Sallins, were critical claiming that no account was taken of the possibility of flooding at “pinch points”.
The councillor also claimed that some work was being done “out of sequence”.
Kildare County Council engineer Edele O’Brien said embankments are being built to keep water away and some of this work was being done on land owned by people to protect their neighbours.
She explained that some have given up land to allow the work to be done.
Ms O’Brien said work is proceeding as quickly as possible and “hopefully this will be the last winter season they will have to worry about flooding.”
She said the work will protect against a one in one hundred year weather event.
She added the Morell flood management scheme, is designed to protect households, businesses, the N7 junction at Castlewarden as well as local roads in the catchment area at risk from flooding.
It involved the the construction of approximately 7,423 metres of new flood embankments, upgrading of up to 1,842 metres of existing embankments and the construction of approximately 474 metres of flood walls in the catchment of the Morell River and its tributaries, the Slane, Kill and Painestown rivers.
“The Morell catchment includes the townlands of Killeenmore, Turnings, Ballyhays, Sherlockstown, Tuckmilltown, Blackchurch and Killeen, which in recent years have been subject to significant flooding resulting in damages to property and businesses.”
Approval for the scheme was granted to Kildare County Council from An Bord Pleanála in April 2018 and the Office of Public Works, who are the builders, “mobilised to site in July 2020.“
Some 55% of the scheme is completed, with the remaining works programmed to be complete by end of 2025.
She added building work is being carried out in a sequenced order so as not to cause increased flood risk to adjoining upstream or downstream areas.
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