Cork County Council to get tough on drainage onto public roads

A get-tough policy is to be adopted by Cork County Council on people who allow water to drain off their lands onto public roads, causing millions of euro in damage.

The local authority is to put more emphasis on road drainage as increased rainfall resulting from climate change has caused damage to some of the 12,000km of roads around the county.

The emphasis was previously primarily on resurfacing damaged roads, but such works will from now on be undertaken in conjunction with drainage projects.