There’s good news for water consumers in North Clare.
Work on the 5 million euro Lisdoonvarna-Extension to Ballyvaughan Water Supply Scheme is near completion.
There’s good news for water consumers in North Clare.
Work on the 5 million euro Lisdoonvarna-Extension to Ballyvaughan Water Supply Scheme is near completion.
The announcement is likely to be broadly welcomed given the severe cutback facing Clare County Council over the coming year due to a major cut in funding.
This scheme forms part of Clare County Council’s Water Services Investment Programme for 2007 to 2009 which outlined 27 specific projects that needed significant infrastructural improvements, taking future developments and population growths into account.
While the install costs for the entire programme stood at over 230 million euro, expected costs rose significantly over the past two years.
This scheme involved 14 kilometres of a new water distribution system being laid from east of Lisdoonvarna to Ballyvaughan, to replace the existing Borehole supply at Newtown…which is in a limestone area extremely vulnerable to contamination.
The extension however is served by a surface water source and equipped through a treatment process.
The Newtown supply will be decommissioned but on a gradual basis and will act as an emergency back up to the Regional Scheme in the short term.
