Loughshinny Wastewater Infrastructure Upgrade

Uisce Éireann has has completed an upgrade of the Loughshinny Wastewater Infrastructure. 

Uisce Éireann completed a €4.5 million project that has provided upgraded wastewater infrastructure in Loughshinny.

The wastewater infrastructure in Loughshinny was no longer suitable to meet the needs of the area and wastewater from Loughshinny flowed to an overloaded septic tank, which allowed inadequately treated wastewater to discharge directly into the Irish Sea.

This project has stopped the discharge and will send wastewater from Loughshinny to the existing wastewater treatment plant at Barnageeragh in Skerries.

Benefits

This completed project will ensure:

• Protection of the environment by ending the discharge of inadequately treated wastewater to the Irish Sea.
• Protection of bathing water quality at Loughshinny.
• Compliance with the EPA’s wastewater discharge authorisation for Balbriggan/ Skerries.
• Provision of wastewater services that meet the needs of both domestic and commercial customers in Loughshinny and the surrounding area.
• Capacity for an increase in the local population to facilitate future growth of the village.
• Reduced on-going maintenance costs.

What was involved in this project?

This project involved:

• Decommissioning the old septic tank system.
• Constructing a new underground pumping station at the Loughshinny beach car park, with an above-ground control kiosk.
• Constructing approximately 2.5km of new wastewater pipe from the new Pumping Station to the R128 via Harbour Road, Mine Road and the R128.
• Jons Civil Engineering Company Ltd. delivered this project on behalf of Uisce Éireann.