Shannon airport sewage plant ‘too little, too late’

THE granting of planning permission for a sewage treatment facility at Shannon Airport was too little, too late, a leading doctor has claimed.

Aer Rianta was finally given permission yesterday to build the plant, four years after it opened the €35 million terminal building at the airport.

Since 2000, the State agency has been pumping 100,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage into the Shannon estuary, a proposed Special Area of Conservation (pSAC), each year.