Customer enraged at Irish Water charging €27k for connection to wastewater mains

Edward and Yvonne McCormack, Rochestown, Cork, showing the last five metres with a measuring tape, of the total 20 metres distance from the waster water manhole opening on the road to the boundary at their front wall.Picture: Denis Minihane.

A Rochestown resident has been left dismayed by Irish Water’s decision to charge him over €27,000 to install 20 metres worth of pipes to connect his new home to the wastewater mains.

Edward McCormack, originally from Tipperary and married to Cork woman Yvonne, bought a house on the Rochestown Road last December.