Ruling on floods to cost millions - Court rules on Cork City floods

THE flood that hit Cork City in late November 2009 had a devastating impact.

It damaged private and public property and left a multimillion-euro trail of destruction in its wake. But it did more — it gave rise to the widespread belief, and fear, that the Lee’s waters were not managed as they might have been and the very worst of the flooding might have been averted had the ESB managed its dams at Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid differently. It was believed that had they kept the water levels in the two reservoirs lower during an exceptionally wet month the flooding might not have been so severe.