*Photograph: Joe Buckley
OFFICIALS IN CLARE County Council have been told they must look “at the bigger picture” in order to improve maintenance in Ballycasey.
A successful appeal for the local authority to clean out the water gullies in the Ballycasey Manor estate and all estates throughout Ballycasey in Shannon was made by Cllr Gerry Flynn (IND) at Tuesday’s meeting of the Shannon Municipal District.
Executive engineer, John Strand confirmed the works would be included in their maintenance schedule.
Putting forward the case, Cllr Flynn explained, “Ballycasey is relatively new but of late the systems seems to be backing up. It is not enough to be bringing in the suction machine and cleaning out the gullies, the wider infrastructure needs to be looked at, the silting goes back into that gully”.
He continued, “the infrastructure was put in place years ago when Shannon Town was being created, it was always capable of taking the volume of water irrespective of volumes that fell. Whether it is funding or we don’t have crews, the maintenance should be larger than what we’re doing and every so often look at the bigger picture”.
Flynn’s proposal was seconded by Cllr Donna McGettigan (SF).
