€40m overhaul of Lee Road water treatment plant on track

Catherine Shanahan writes that the first major investment since the 1950s should ensure Cork city's water supply "for 50-100 years".

The new water treatment plant under construction to the west of the existing plant on the Lee Road, Cork.

AN ambitious €40m overhaul of the Lee Road Water Treatment Plant is on track for completion within budget by year-end despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

While most construction work shut down last Friday as part of the national effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, the Lee Road project is one of a limited number of essential sites allowed to continue.