*Bridgetown. UISCE ÉIREANN have come under fire from a former Mayor of Clare who claimed the state-owned water utility company threw local personnel in South-East Clare to the wolves.
Paula Kearney, Biodiversity Officer, Galway City Council, Ciar O’Toole, Senior Ecologist, MARA, Minister Timmy Dooley, TD, Karein Dubsky, Coastwatch Coordinator. CLARE JUNIOR MINISTER, Timmy Dooley (FF) met with volunteers, sea swimmers, local and national authorities at a workshop and field trip on coastal water quality protection in Salthill.
*Photograph: John Mangan ENNISTYMON’s treatment plant continue to operate at fifty five percent above its design capacity while county councillors have been urged to follow through on commitments to visit the sites operated by Uisce Éireann in the locality.
UISCE Éireann has apologised to customers for “failures” in relation to water treatment at O’Briensbridge. An EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) audit this week revealed that people in the East Clare village were exposed to inadequately disinfected water for 12 months before a boil notice was put in place last August, a notice which was lifted …
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ENNIS’ AIR QUALITY has been worse than China’s capital city on occasions in the past two years but does not warrant the preparation of a management plan.
*Untreated water entering the sea at Lahinch. Photograph: John Mangan 1,800 tonnes of raw sewage enters the Clare coastline daily.
ENNIS’ poor air quality has been blamed with increasing admissions to emergency departments.
EFFORTS to tackle poor air quality in Ennis must be intensified, a local representative has said.
Irish Water and the Environmental Protection Agency have been criticised for their “failure” to protect Kilkee.
Air pollution levels in Ennis last October reached 42 times higher than what is deemed to be safe.