How to get round city floods menace

THE River Lee recently had its greatest flood since 1962.

How to get round city floods menace

In 1991 Jack O'Keeffe, then station manager at Inniscarra power station, opened the new bypass at Carrigadrohid station. He said that this new bypass would be capable of coping with any future flood on the Lee and that Inniscarra was already prepared for any such occurrence.

This leaves the ESB prepared for any emergency but what of Cork city?

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