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Water, Water Everywhere... Ashbourne's Water Crisis

On Wednesday 12th of February at 8pm – despite the hazardous weather conditions – roughly 70 people attended a meeting in the Residents Hotel in Ashbourne, to discuss the current water quality crisis. At this meeting, representatives from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Labour and Independent gathered with concerned Ashbourne residents to address issues regarding the poor quality water supply that has been affecting many areas of the town. The general consensus was t...

Action On Water Charges

This is a letter Alan Tobin wrote to the Director of Energy, Retail and Water. We will post a reply here when we receive one. Watch this space.

Ashbourne Water Quality: Response From Water.ie

—– Forwarded message —– From: Water.ie To: “alan4ashbourne@alantobin.ie” <alan4ashbourne@alantobin.ie> Subject: Irish Water re. Stalleen water treatment plant (existing) in Donore, Co. Meath Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 15:25 Dear Councillor Tobin, Thank you for your recent call regarding Stalleen water treatment plant (existing) in Donore, Co.. Meath. We can report that the Stalleen Water Treatment Plant is on Irish Water’s Proposed Capita...

Regional Biosolids Storage Facility by 2020.

Press Release: Regional Biosolids Storage Facility   On Tuesday 12th of September, I attended Irish Water’s Stage 3 Public Consultation regarding plans to build a biosolids storage facility at a site in Newtown/Kilshane. I spoke with Irish Water representative Donal O’Connor who gave me the facts surrounding the proposed biosolids storage facility. He was adamant that their plans were designed to have minimal consequence on the surrounding area in terms of environmental, e...

Irish Water & Milltown Road: New Main Road Works Update

Irish Water & Milltown Road: New Main Road Works Update   The new water main is progressing well, however we have another week of disruption ahead with works at the Hunter’s Lane junction scheduled to finished by Thursday 12th September.    The three-way traffic light system has been causing problems but I am appealing to people to please adhere to the traffic lights. They are set to a very tight sequence for three-way traffic, and it does work once people ob...

Ashbourne Watermain Replacement Update!

The final section of new Ashbourne watermain on the R135 is now tested and commissioned. In order to make the final connections to the new watermain, planned water outages are required. Disruption to water supplies will occur on the following dates: Monday 14th October between 9.30am and 3.30pm It is envisaged that the following locations may have no water during this outage: ·        Hunters Lane ·      &...