€12m project to protect Cork city suburbs from flooding

Defensive walls, river channel widening and deepening, new bridges and culverts will form part of a €12m project planned for flood defences in two Cork suburbs.

Details of the preferred options for the flood prevention schemes in Douglas and Togher were unveiled to the public yesterday by engineers from the county council, OPW and consultants Arup.

In Douglas, defence walls will be built on the southern side of the Tramore river at Douglas Mills. The river will be deepened and widened in certain areas and the existing culvert at Church Road is to be replaced.