Under-fire agencies promise interim flood measures

THE two state agencies in the firing line since Cork’s devastating winter flood have again defended their actions but have vowed to implement interim changes.

However, the ESB is dependent on the Office of Public Works (OPW) to deliver the structural defences along the river Lee that will allow it implement major changes to its dam management procedures, thereby allowing it discharge greater volumes of water without causing a flood downstream.

But work on those structural defences will not begin until well into 2012.