Save Cork City pleads with council to reject OPW flood defence plans

The campaign group claim the OPW are more interested in "winning an argument" rather than addressing concerns. 

A cyclist making his way through the flood water at South Terrace in Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The campaign group Save Cork City (SCC) has rejected calls to withdraw their objections to the Office of Public Works (OPW) Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme and repeated their support for a tidal barrier plan.

In a 22 page letter sent to Cork City Council, the campaign group pleaded with councillors to abandon the OPW flood plans for the city and claimed that the OPW and civil service are more concerned with “winning an argument” rather than “addressing the real issues that still remain unresolved”.