Cork City's dirty water problem to persist well into the summer

Tens of thousands of homes and business supplied by the Lee Road plant face several more months of water discolouration issues.

Cork’s dirty water crisis is set to persist well into the summer, with another €1.6m being spent on the city’s new €40m water treatment plant in a bid to tackle the problem.

Uisce Éireann said it hoped the introduction of a new water conditioning process at the near three-year-old Lee Road water treatment plant would reduce the incidents of discolouration which have plagued the supply since the plant was commissioned in summer 2022.