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20 October 2017

Irish Water continues work to restore full supply to customers affected by Storm Ophelia

Irish Water is working to restore water and wastewater services across the country. Find out the latest updates in your area.

19 October 2017

Storm Ophelia Update 7.30pm

• 17,500 customers without waterm down from peak of 109,000
• 1,606 customers at risk of running out of water, down from peak of 260,000
• Cork, Waterford and Wexford worst affected by outages 

17 October 2017

Storm Ophelia Update 5pm

Impacts include loss of power to treatment plants and pumping stations

• Cork and Waterford worst affected by outages
• 30 emergency water tankers deployed
• Vulnerable customers being contacted

16 October 2017

Storm Ophelia Update 5pm

• Monitoring all water and wastewater supplies
• Working with the 31 local authorities
• Coordinating with ESB to prioritise power restoration

16 October 2017

Storm Ophelia Update 12.30pm

Incident plans in place and crews on standby

• Heavy rainfall may increase risk of flooding
• Power outages may impact water treatment plants
•  Precautionary Boil Water Notices may be imposed

25 September 2017

Irish Water appeals to those eligible for domestic refunds to update details if necessary

Refunds to be issued to approximately 990,000 customers beginning when necessary legislation is passed

• No application or registration process
• Majority of refunds issued before year end
• Process ready to be implemented

1 August 2017

Project progresses to reduce discharge of untreated sewage into River Shannon

Planning submitted to progress the Athlone Networks Contract

• Reduce risk of sewer flooding
• Reduce overflows to River Shannon
• Support future development

21 July 2017

Conserving water now will help to reduce the possibility of water restrictions and will benefit all customers served by Lough Owel

Update on message on Lough Owel Water Levels

• Drought prevention measures ongoing
• Unseasonably dry weather conditions
• small changes, positive impact

20 July 2017

Irish Water investing €935k in wastewater monitoring and sampling in the East and Midlands

Facilitating future development in towns and villages

• Improve performance of treatment plants
• Protect our waterways
• React quicker to storm events

7 July 2017

Planning submitted to progress the upgrade to the Collinstown and Ballymore Wastewater Treatment Plants

Upgrade will protect the environment by improving the operations at the plants

• Increase the capacity
• Provide environmental compliance
• Protect the Environment