It is with regret that we at Save Cork City have had to object to the Cork Docklands to City Centre RoadNetwork Improvement Scheme (CDCCRNIS) on the grounds that it unnecessarily is a flood defence project based on and within the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme (LLFRS) and very seriously that this fact has been largely concealed from the public and city councillors in aPart 8 consultation process.

Save Cork City mull next moves after successful legal challenge

A Dutch flood expert will assess the OPW’s €160m flood defence proposals for Cork during a weekend symposium.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has again ruled out the construction of a downstream tidal barrier to protect Cork City from flood risk, saying that walls will be required.  

The construction of a tidal barrier to protect Cork city from floods has been ruled out again on cost grounds

A tidal barrier like those protecting New Orleans could be built in Cork for €140m, an independent report suggests.

The OPW has agreed to re-examine the cost of building a tidal barrage as it finalises the design of Cork’s €140m flood defence scheme — the largest single investment in flood defences in the history of the state.

Campaigners opposed to the Office of Public Work’s €140 million flood defence plan for Cork have insisted that a tidal barrier can be built for €135m as part of their three-point plan to protect the city from flooding.

Critics of Cork’s €140m flood defence plan, the largest in the history of the State, have been urged to work with the Office of Public Works (OPW) to secure changes and allow the scheme advance.

We do not want to build more walls, says the Save Cork City campaign group, which argues that reducing the level of flooding should be the first priority, writes Eoin English.

Cork’s business community is largely critical what it argues is the late entry to the debate of the Save Our City campaigners, writes Eoin English.

The OPW and a voluntary campaign group are at odds over how to combat flooding in Cork. Eoin English examines what may be coming on stream.