Designs ‘prove flood plan not a walls scheme’

The state agencies overseeing the contentious €140m Cork flood defence plan have published new designs which they say prove it’s not a “walls scheme”, as its critics have claimed.

In their strongest defence of the scheme to date, the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Cork City Council issued a joint statement in which they said they hope the latest images of the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme will “assuage genuine misunderstanding” about the single largest investment in flood defences in the history of the state and also “challenge significant misrepresentation” of it too.