*Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien. Photograph: Tom Micks DESPITE over fifty towns and villages in Clare being prohibited from the construction of housing developments due to inadequate wastewater infrastructure, the Minister for Housing insists the climate is improving for young people to build homes.
*Photograph: John Mangan AN IRON SLUDGE discharge from a ’no longer fit for purpose’ water treatment plant operated by Uisce Éireann was the cause of an ‘ecological tragedy’ that wiped out all fish life over a 2.6km river, a court has heard.
*Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien (FF) with local election candidate David Griffin (FF). OBJECTIONS to the upgrade of a wastewater treatment plant in Newmarket-on-Fergus has been criticised by the Minister for Housing.
TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS will continue on the Lifford Rd in Ennis for the next five weeks while Uisce Éireann carry out works in the locality.
*Kilkee PLANS by Uisce Éireann for a new wastewater treatment plant for Kilkee are facing strong local opposition with one objector branding the proposed WWTP ‘a monstrosity’.
NORMAL water supply is returning to parts of North and East Clare following bursts in recent days.
It has been a busy start to 2024 for Uisce Éireann crews in County Clare as an important project to improve water supply to homes and businesses gets underway.
Uisce Éireann has pleaded guilty to two water pollution charges in connection with a ‘fish kill’ that occurred downstream of an Uisce Éireann water treatment plant in north Clare last May. In the case before Ennis District Court, solicitor for prosecuting authority in the case, Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), Kevin Sherry said that Uisce Éireann is pleading guilty to permitting deleterious matter to go into …
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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Uisce Éireann, is working to restore normal water supply to customers in County Clare who have been affected by a recent power outage caused by Storm Debi. The power disruption may result in lower-than-normal water pressure and intermittent water outages for customers supplied by Bellharbour Public Water Supply and Carron Public Water Supply this afternoon. …
