A sewage leak that has been ongoing in a West Cork village for almost 30 years has been branded \u201ca disgrace\u201d at a recent meeting of Cork County Council\u2019s West Cork municipal district.<\/p>\n
The issue was raised in a motion by Independent Ireland councillor Daniel Sexton that said: \u201cIn light of the significant environmental and public health risks posed by the sewage leaks in Shannonvale, I am calling on this council to write to the Environmental Protection Agency to request that they use their full enforcement powers to compel Uisce \u00c9ireann to develop and implement an expedited action plan to end the sewage overflow and remediate the contamination of the park and the River Argideen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Sexton said the issue had been ongoing for 28 years. He said sewage \u201chad to be\u201d going into the River Argideen during periods of heavy rainfall and the river supplied drinking water to Clonakilty and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a bit of action here. It has been going on far too long and nothing has changed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Supporting the motion, Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Joe Carroll said: \u201cIt\u2019s an outrage and to think this is going into the River Argideen. This is not right and a lot of people in Clon probably wouldn\u2019t drink the water if they knew.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is more than disgraceful, it\u2019s outrageous.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Social Democrats councillor Isobel Towse said a timeframe and detailed plan should be sought from Uisce \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cYou can only imagine the amount of chlorine that goes into the water to counteract the bacteria.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Sexton said in his view, the failures of Uisce \u00c9ireann were such that the body \u201cshould be disbanded\u201d.<\/p>\n
Senior officials in the utility were \u201cgetting bonuses for not delivering\u201d, he added: \u201cThey need to cop on. They are not delivering.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he would also advise people in Clonakilty not to drink the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cI even know someone whose dog won\u2019t drink it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ger Barry, acting director of services from Cork County Council\u2019s environment directorate, said: \u201cUisce \u00c9ireann, which is regulated by the EPA, are responsible for the Shannonvale public wastewater treatment plant. Cork County Council will write to the EPA on the matter as requested in this notice of motion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sewage leak that has been ongoing in a West Cork village for almost 30 years has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[781,18,440,19,17,133,446,22676],"class_list":{"0":"post-229797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uisce-eireann","15":"tag-west-cork"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115708554611560071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}