Factory staff wary of water after uranium found in local supply

STAFF at a factory in Baltinglass who noticed the water tasted “funny” some weeks ago are now wondering if it’s connected to the discovery of massive levels of toxic uranium in the local supply.

“About a month ago everybody here was complaining about the taste of the tea in the canteen,” Michael Patterson, who works at the local Wampher facility, said yesterday.

“For about a week nobody would drink the tea or the coffee, because the water was absolutely dreadful. All they’d drink was bottled water or milk,” Michael, a father of three young children, recalled.