Café gets green light on effluent disposal proposal

NATIONAL Park authorities in Killarney have been given the all-clear to allow treated effluent from an old world café flow into a lakeland area.

An Bord Pleanála has upheld a Kerry Co Council decision to grant a licence for the discharge of effluent from Dinis Cottage where thousands of tourists take refreshments while visiting the scenic area.

The cottage, dating back to the 1700s, is on the shores of the Muckross, or Middle, Lake, and close to the picturesque Meeting of the Waters. The effluent will be discharged to a constructed wetland before entering the Long Range River which connects the Middle and Upper Lakes.