Traders and council at odds over flood works

TRADERS and Bandon Town Council are at loggerheads about the extent of anti-flooding measures carried out in the year since the West Cork town suffered its worst flooding in 500 years.

County engineer Noel O’Keeffe, who is also Bandon town manager, says that Trojan work has been done in recent months while angry traders are claiming they “are as exposed this year as they were last year”.

According to Mr O’Keeffe, an early warning system (EWS) has been commissioned by the town council which will give five or six hours advance warning to traders when there is a flood risk.