Sewage from Cork eco-homes leaking into protected waterway
Baile Glas was Ireland's first sustainable, social and affordable housing scheme in Lombardstown, Co. Cork. Pic: Denis Scannell
An eco-friendly housing estate has had its sewage pumped into a communal septic tank, which is now over capacity and said to be leaking into a river which is the subject of a special order protecting the highly endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussel.
The leader of Fine Gael on Cork County Council, Cllr John Paul O'Shea, said: “It is ironic that the Baile Glas Housing Estate in Lombardstown, Co. Cork, was built as an eco-friendly housing estate, yet its raw sewage continues to discharge into the River Blackwater.”
