Irish Water lodges €7m water supply application

Irish Water has lodged two planning applications with Waterford Council in a €7m project aimed at sourcing and conveying a new water supply from Dungarvan to the Ring Gaeltacht/ Helvic area of the county.

The planned scheme covers part of an area where a boil water notice was issued to 350 households in mid-July, and expected to last another four to six weeks.

The utility is seeking to construct a pumping station, enclosed building and associated works and infrastructure at Clogherane, close to Dungarvan, along with two water storage reservoirs, a control building and associated site works and infrastructure at Gort na Daibhce Uachtarach.