€5.5m Bandon works set to restart in 2015

Work should start early next year on a stalled €5.5m sewerage scheme in Bandon, Co Cork. Irish Water has confirmed it has now prioritised the scheme which was halted in mid-2012 when the contractors, SIAC, abandoned work on the project following mutual agreement with Cork County Council.

The main reason SIAC withdrew from the project was that the company found far more underground archaeology than initially anticipated.

The contract for the Bandon Sewerage Scheme stage 2 Main Works was designed to improve and expand the existing combined sewerage and storm drain systems in the town and its environs, including the construction of two storm water pumping stations located in the town centre.