Incinerator planned for a flood hazard setting

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

ISN’T it interesting to note that while your headline (November 21) proclaims the devastation wreaked on Cork by a "one-in-800 year flood", An Bord Pleanála is considering the merits or otherwise of granting permission to construct two incinerators, one to burn hazardous waste and the other to burn non-hazardous waste, beside the shores of Cork harbour on a site prone to flooding on the basis of water levels reached in a one-in-100 year flood.

Cllr Marcia K D’Alton
Hillcrest
Pembroke Wood
Passage West
Co Cork

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, November 25, 2009