Extension to public sewer essential to tourist haven

AN urgent call to speed up the long-awaited extension of the public sewer in tourist haven Killarney was made at the weekend.

The extension is seen as an essential part of plans to resolve pollution problems in Lough Lein, the largest of Killarney’s three lakes and centerpiece of the area’s multi-million euro tourism industry.

In recent years, there has been huge growth in the number of one-off houses and other developments (nearly all serviced by septic tanks) on the periphery of Killarney.