Infrastructure around the Blackrock area

stereo_steve

I writing a thesis for college and it involves knowing the infrastucture in and around the Blackrock area. I'm not interested in transport, DART, N11 etc

So far I know there is a sewerage treatment plant in Dun Laoghaire, are there others? I googled but found nothing.

I have found the mobile phone masts using siteviewer.ie

There's a reservoir in Sandyford. Is there any others?

How can I find pylons and power stations?

Thanks for any help I get!!

Steve

mike65

I'll copy this over to Dublin South (I think its county rather than City technically speaking!).

stereo_steve

Thanks Mike!

HonalD

Contact Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council - You will be amazed at how much infrastructure they have...in fact, they might be amazed at how much infrastructure they have

Prof_V

stereo_steve wrote:

How can I find pylons and power stations?

The Eirgrid (high voltage national grid) map is at: http://www.eirgrid.com/EirgridPortal/uploads/General%20Documents/Eirgrid%20MAP%202006.pdf
I believe ESB Networks, who manage the lower-voltage distribution system, have similar diagrams of their lines and stations, but unfortunately the whole ESB site seems to be down at the moment.

Victor

stereo_steve wrote:

So far I know there is a sewerage treatment plant in Dun Laoghaire, are there others?

AFAIK its only a pumping station that sends everything to Poolbeg. A substantial tunnel system was put in place to connect everything up.

And the port?

Prof_V

Victor wrote:

AFAIK its only a pumping station that sends everything to Poolbeg. A substantial tunnel system was put in place to connect everything up.

Yes, only a pumping station according to http://www.dlrcoco.ie/env/Updated/DRAINAGE.htm (down at the moment, like the ESB site - a long weekend doesn't seem to be the time to try accessing Irish public-sector sites - but Google cache at http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:prSXGzhlDroJ:www.dlrcoco.ie/env/Updated/DRAINAGE.htm+west+pier+sewage&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ie)

I think the main tunnel runs from the Sandycove area - where there used to be a direct outfall to the sea - west to the pumping station, roughly under the seafront roads. I was down it in the construction stage around a decade ago. The connection across the bay is in pipeline rather than tunnel. I think there's also a section of sewer tunnel in the Brewery Road area, but I can't recall how far it runs.

Victor

Prof_V wrote:

Yes, only a pumping station according to http://www.dlrcoco.ie/env/Updated/DRAINAGE.htm (down at the moment, like the ESB site - a long weekend doesn't seem to be the time to try accessing Irish public-sector sites - but Google cache at http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:prSXGzhlDroJ:www.dlrcoco.ie/env/Updated/DRAINAGE.htm+west+pier+sewage&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ie)

I saw that too, but I wonder how many peoploe check irishstatutebook.ie late on Saturday night on a bank holiday.

Prof_V

Victor wrote:

I saw that too, but I wonder how many peoploe check irishstatutebook.ie late on Saturday night on a bank holiday.

True, but the ESB surprised me a bit, being the kind of business you'd have thought would value round-the-clock availability (the transmission network maps are just nice-to-have, but the whole site seems to be down). Also, people don't always have time to check things during the week (this applies to me this week for various reasons) - irishstatutebook.ie is probably an extreme example, but I'm sure local authority and semi-State sites get a reasonable amount of this kind of traffic.

stereo_steve

Thanks for the advice guys. You've been really helpful.

I was just wondering if there was something I'd missed in the area, power station etc.

For some reason, I always thought that the pumping station was for sewerage treatment. Well you learn something everyday

HonalD

Is it soely physical infrastructure or social infrastruture too?:)