Sligo Water Supply

Xiney

So, since the rains, our water has gone quite cloudy. I guess this is understandable, if annoying.

However, I'm just checking... no "gastric" problems with you guys right? Because as I know from experience*, the powers that be pretty much only let ya know when half the town is already glued to their toilets.





*I realise that's a Canadian experience, but I figure you'd all agree that the powers that be are generally useless regardless of location.

brianthebard

There are warnings and stuff on ocean fm any time theres a problem afaik.
I don't have any issues yet,but we hardly drink tap water unless boiled tbh.

Xiney

I drink at least 2, most often 3 litres of tap water a day

brianthebard

Sucks to be you so...Em seriously though if you're worried you better boil it to be safe.Where does your water come from?

magnumlady

brianthebard wrote: »

There are warnings and stuff on ocean fm any time theres a problem afaik.
I don't have any issues yet,but we hardly drink tap water unless boiled tbh.

But does anyone listen to Ocean anymore??

Xiney

Mr Xiney bought 3 x 5 Ltrs of water in town this morning so we'll be drinking that for the time being.

And I echo Val's sentiments...

elshambo

Xiney wrote: »

So, since the rains, our water has gone quite cloudy. I guess this is understandable, if annoying.

Unless you are drinking straight from a well the water should not be affected by the rain fall as it goes through the exact same cleaning system.
Cloudy can mean something like too much fluoride but is usually

http://www.lvvwd.com/html/wq_water_facts_cloudy.html

U should buy one of those jug filters, ive been using one for years, compaired to people who buy water (therefore paying twice!?) u will save a fortune and have clean water to boot.
(of course if you are cleaning the water yourself u are paying for it to be cleaned twice but!? )

Xiney

we had a brita filter in Montreal, but here we've got such a tiny fridge it's not really feasible.

elshambo

Xiney wrote: »

we had a brita filter in Montreal, but here we've got such a tiny fridge it's not really feasible.

couple of Glass bottles!?

BTW jug filters do not remove flouride!? even though people thing they do

+ if you leave water sitting for 10 mins most of the flouride evaporates apparently (?Think i saw it on telly somewhere, sometime, somehow)

brianthebard

magnumlady wrote: »

But does anyone listen to Ocean anymore??

old people?Anyways you just have to suffer it for an hour at most to get your info,isnt it worth it?

Xiney

elshambo I think you may have chlorine and fluoride confused...

TequilaMockingBird

There is a warning in place for some areas.

http://oceanfm.ie/onair/sligoleitrimnews.php?articleid=000003744

YeatsCounty

Sligo householders advised to boil water Aug 16, 8:13 am
Householders in parts of Sligo are been advised to boil their water.The water supply from Kilsellagh reservoir is discoloured due to the recent high level of rainfall. The reservoir is the supply source for Kiltycahill,the Rosses Point area and Northern parts of Sligo town.

Aye, that'd be us so.

elshambo

Xiney wrote: »

elshambo I think you may have chlorine and fluoride confused...

eye maybe, i only ever half watch the telly, as long as one of them evaporates after 10 mins its all good, or at least better?:D

im pretty sure
"BTW jug filters do not remove flouride!? even though people think they do"
bit is right though

Big_Mac

YeatsCounty wrote: »

Aye, that'd be us so.

Yup. Our water has gone a rank colour the last few days.

Disgusting so it is.

Essexboy

This is a common and regular problem in North Sligo.

We never hear of this happening in neigbouring Northern counties eg Fermanagh which have the same kind of soil, same rain etc. Why? (rhetorical question).

guinnessdrinker

Fermanagh have one of the largest lakes in Ireland as a sourse of drinking water though.

I know what you are saying though, water quality has deterioted greatly in the last few years. I think it might be due to a number of factors including bad planning of new housing developments putting too much pressure on existing water sources. I could be wrong but there seems to also be a serious lack of investment in water services in general in Sligo.

Jabby

Essexboy wrote: »

This is a common and regular problem in North Sligo.

We never hear of this happening in neigbouring Northern counties eg Fermanagh which have the same kind of soil, same rain etc. Why? (rhetorical question).

I agree Essexboy.

They say that there are two things that are certain in this life..... Death and Taxes. I think we can now alter that to three and include Sligo's annual problem.... their third world water supply which has been with us now for many many years.

A few years ago, five councillors from Sligo County Council, (all from the Fianna Fail party by the way )and four from the Borough Council (2 FF and 2 Lab) traveled to Gibraltar for four days (four star hotel of course...nothing but the best) to study 'Cross Border Relations in Modern Europe' (at a cost reputed to be €8,000 to the taxpayer.)

Cross Border Relations in Europe my arse. What made this even more ridiculous at the time was the fact that no councillor from Cavan and Monaghan attended this and only one from Donegal traveled even though it was open to all council members in the border region.

Would you agree my friends that instead of wasting money like this, sending these geniuses off on junkets like that, they should instead use this money to send someone a little brighter than some of these, like a qualified engineer perhaps to an appropriate conference or fact finding mission relevant to this particular problem and then, when ready, he / she could report back to his or her council colleagues.

Armed with this information, they may well be in a position then to finally address and hopefully solve, once and for all, this exasperating problem.

rgds,

Jabby

gino85

my grandmother was on the news the other day complaining about it

brianthebard

Essexboy wrote: »

This is a common and regular problem in North Sligo.

We never hear of this happening in neigbouring Northern counties eg Fermanagh which have the same kind of soil, same rain etc. Why? (rhetorical question).

We don't have a problem in south sligo (cause we are better than ye )

magnumlady

brianthebard wrote: »

We don't have a problem in south sligo (cause we are better than ye )

Where have you been hiding?
We've had loads of times when the waters been off or minging.:rolleyes:

brianthebard

Not lately though?

Mint Sauce

brianthebard wrote: »

We don't have a problem in south sligo (cause we are better than ye )

where exactly is this north south devide

magnumlady

brianthebard wrote: »

Not lately though?

We had no water for a few hours a couple of weeks ago, its certainly not as bad as it used to be.

Essexboy

brianthebard wrote: »

We don't have a problem in south sligo (cause we are better than ye )

I thought Gurteen was in South Sligo - has it seceded? :rolleyes:

A NOTICE to householders on a public water supply in south Sligo to boil water before use because of contamination is to remain in place “indefinitely”. that was in July.
http://archives.tcm.ie/sligoweekender/2008/07/08/story35966.asp

il gatto

Jabby wrote: »

I agree Essexboy.

They say that there are two things that are certain in this life..... Death and Taxes. I think we can now alter that to three and include Sligo's annual problem.... their third world water supply which has been with us now for many many years.

A few years ago, five councillors from Sligo County Council, (all from the Fianna Fail party by the way )and four from the Borough Council (2 FF and 2 Lab) traveled to Gibraltar for four days (four star hotel of course...nothing but the best) to study 'Cross Border Relations in Modern Europe' (at a cost reputed to be €8,000 to the taxpayer.)

Cross Border Relations in Europe my arse. What made this even more ridiculous at the time was the fact that no councillor from Cavan and Monaghan attended this and only one from Donegal traveled even though it was open to all council members in the border region.

Would you agree my friends that instead of wasting money like this, sending these geniuses off on junkets like that, they should instead use this money to send someone a little brighter than some of these, like a qualified engineer perhaps to an appropriate conference or fact finding mission relevant to this particular problem and then, when ready, he / she could report back to his or her council colleagues.

Armed with this information, they may well be in a position then to finally address and hopefully solve, once and for all, this exasperating problem.

rgds,

Jabby

One of the councillors told me it was alright for the golf, but if he was paying he wouldn't bother going. Weather was nice. Did no "study". Was so glib about it I wan't to punch his lights out.
Part of the water issue in this region is the fact that we're surrounded by hills and mountains, often with a peaty soil covering. The run off which fills our resevoirs is effectively "bog water" and therefore occassionally exhibits that brownish tinge and sometimes tastes brackish. It's generally not bad for you, but at the same time quite disgusting. I can't stomach tap water in Sligo town. And it's not nice to leave a tap dripping overnight into a clean sink only to see a yellow streak like a urinal the next morning. It's probably safe most of the time, but I really think they should look at processing it some more the reduce the overall rankness of it.

Jabby

il gatto wrote: »

One of the councillors told me it was alright for the golf, but if he was paying he wouldn't bother going. Weather was nice. Did no "study". Was so glib about it I wan't to punch his lights out.
Part of the water issue in this region is the fact that we're surrounded by hills and mountains, often with a peaty soil covering. The run off which fills our resevoirs is effectively "bog water" and therefore occassionally exhibits that brownish tinge and sometimes tastes brackish. It's generally not bad for you, but at the same time quite disgusting. I can't stomach tap water in Sligo town. And it's not nice to leave a tap dripping overnight into a clean sink only to see a yellow streak like a urinal the next morning. It's probably safe most of the time, but I really think they should look at processing it some more the reduce the overall rankness of it.

Thanks il gatto. I suspected all along that there was no ''study''
You only have to look at who you're dealing with
I understand your point about the peaty soil covering and the inevitable problems that would cause the quality and colour of the water but wouldn't you think in this day and age there'd have to be a way around this problem.

brianthebard

Essexboy wrote: »

I thought Gurteen was in South Sligo - has it seceded? :rolleyes:

A NOTICE to householders on a public water supply in south Sligo to boil water before use because of contamination is to remain in place ?indefinitely?. that was in July.
http://archives.tcm.ie/sligoweekender/2008/07/08/story35966.asp

im glad im leaving sligo and heading to Galway...Ah shoite!

Gillie

Finally the water in North Sligo appears to have improved (wasn't hard!)
Up until yesterday the water in Cartron has been brown.
Not off colour but actually brown.

I notice that last night and this morning it appears to have been sorted.

Anyone else in this area find the same...

takola

Gillie wrote: »

Finally the water in North Sligo appears to have improved (wasn't hard!)
Up until yesterday the water in Cartron has been brown.
Not off colour but actually brown.

I notice that last night and this morning it appears to have been sorted.

Anyone else in this area find the same...

Yep. Water seems to be clean again! Thank god for that. It was disgusting for ages there.

Jabby

Gillie wrote: »

Finally the water in North Sligo appears to have improved (wasn't hard!)
Up until yesterday the water in Cartron has been brown.
Not off colour but actually brown.

I notice that last night and this morning it appears to have been sorted.

Anyone else in this area find the same...

North Sligo's water has improved marginally I agree, but what's the bets we will be having this discussion again this time next year and the year after ,and after etc.

takola

Well in fairness, if we didn't have the water to whinge about we'd find something else to have a good long whinge over! That's what sligonians do. We whinge because nothing ever seems to be good enough to please us! :rolleyes:

Someone mentioned that they're flushing out the pipes (Or something like that! It was early, I was tired) today? Don't know if it's only in the ballytivnan area or if it's everywhere?

Jabby

takola wrote: »

Well in fairness, if we didn't have the water to whinge about we'd find something else to have a good long whinge over! That's what sligonians do. We whinge because nothing ever seems to be good enough to please us! :rolleyes:

Someone mentioned that they're flushing out the pipes (Or something like that! It was early, I was tired) today? Don't know if it's only in the ballytivnan area or if it's everywhere?

Not sure about this either.

The water situation is very annoying though you have to admit takola.
Water tanks having to come to housing estates with water in 2008. Something wrong there.

You're probably right about Sligonions. That they are notorious moaners is true but in this case, all they are asking for a reasonably clean water supply.

nicolaonfire

Gillie wrote: »

Finally the water in North Sligo appears to have improved (wasn't hard!)
Up until yesterday the water in Cartron has been brown.
Not off colour but actually brown.

I notice that last night and this morning it appears to have been sorted.

Anyone else in this area find the same...

Yeah it definitely is getting better.
Have seen results in the past two days.
You're right, it was actually brown. Coming out of the tap like watery muck!!!
Like we were being told to boil it before using but no way was I using it even after being boiled. Boiled or not it is still BROWN! That can't be good. Like boiling it isn't gonna change the colour of brown to clear etc...

So yeah tea is being made from ballygowan, also cooking water and brushing teeth with the good stuff.

It should be back to normal soon though.

takola

Jabby wrote: »

Not sure about this either.

The water situation is very annoying though you have to admit takola.
Water tanks having to come to housing estates with water in 2008. Something wrong there.

You're probably right about Sligonions. That they are notorious moaners is true but in this case, all they are asking for a reasonably clean water supply.

I agree, it was a joke. But I'm not sure what the cause of it was or what they could have done differently to make it not happen so I'd rather not complain. It's been sorted. The way I see it (and I may seem a bit naive here) is that the county council have enough people already on their backs without this happening and half the town being onto them about the water too. So I would hope that it wasn't something they could have predicted and it was looked into and sorted as quickly as they could do.

It sometimes seems like the county council can't do anything right by people. We want something, they give it too us and then we're complaining about how they didn't put a bow on it or we've moved onto the next thing to have a whinge about.

nicolaonfire wrote: »

Yeah it definitely is getting better.
Have seen results in the past two days.
You're right, it was actually brown. Coming out of the tap like watery muck!!!
Like we were being told to boil it before using but no way was I using it even after being boiled. Boiled or not it is still BROWN! That can't be good. Like boiling it isn't gonna change the colour of brown to clear etc...

So yeah tea is being made from ballygowan, also cooking water and brushing teeth with the good stuff.

It should be back to normal soon though.

Yep! It was still horrible after boiling it. Someone call out to Cartron with bottled water from Glencar. He came to the door with it and only charged €5 for a 5 litre bottle though. I seen the same one being sold in the shops for up to €7.50. Couldn't help but laugh at it.

Xiney

Yeah, our water is looking cleaner too. Still not 100% but it started improving on Saturday.

We're still drinking bottled water, though. Mr Xiney's parents brought us up a 40 litre tank of spring water.

Gillie

nicolaonfire wrote: »

Yeah it definitely is getting better.
Have seen results in the past two days.
You're right, it was actually brown. Coming out of the tap like watery muck!!!
Like we were being told to boil it before using but no way was I using it even after being boiled. Boiled or not it is still BROWN! That can't be good. Like boiling it isn't gonna change the colour of brown to clear etc...

So yeah tea is being made from ballygowan, also cooking water and brushing teeth with the good stuff.

It should be back to normal soon though.

Your from Cartron too Nic aren't ya?

It was awful bad. Couldn't run a bath even!!

As someone said boiled brown water is still brown!!

nicolaonfire

Gillie wrote: »

Your from Cartron too Nic aren't ya?

It was awful bad. Couldn't run a bath even!!

As someone said boiled brown water is still brown!!

Yeah Gill, I am from Cartron!
And OMG my fellow Cartronian (well ex Cartronian) guess what? I just poured water into a glass there to check what it's like now and it is pure clear.
NO BROWN :eek:

I will still give it a few more days before I use it just to make sure that everything that may have been in it, is out!!!

Gillie

Sounds good!

nicolaonfire

Yeup
What should we complain about next? :P

Jabby

"Something they could have predicted"....give me a break.

I am living in Sligo for the best part of 25 years.... it was an issue THEN and if anything, it's getting worse!

I think even my dog could have predicted this problem.

Gillie

Jabby wrote: »

"Something they could have predicted"....give me a break.

I am living in Sligo for the best part of 25 years.... it was an issue THEN and if anything, it's getting worse!

I think even my dog could have predicted this problem.

Hold on a sec.

I have lived in Cartron almost all my life and the water has NEVER gone brown for more than a day...

Without being too specific where you from Jabby?

takola

Gillie wrote: »

Hold on a sec.

I have lived in Cartron almost all my life and the water has NEVER gone brown for more than a day...

Without being too specific where you from Jabby?

Have to agree. I grew up close to the cartron area from about the age of 6 and have lived in Cartron for 2 years now and I don't remember seeing the water go brown like that before. I know we've had warnings to boil it a couple of times but I don't think it's as bad as some people would like to make it seem.

Jabby

Gillie wrote: »

Hold on a sec.

I have lived in Cartron almost all my life and the water has NEVER gone brown for more than a day...

Without being too specific where you from Jabby?

I'm from North Sligo Gillie and I can tell you for a fact that for at least 30 days almost EVERY year since 1983 the water goes brown around here.
Don't ask me why. Anyone from this area will tell you that and we are blue in the face trying to get some of our gob****e county councillors to put pressure on the relevant department to do something about it.

So I hope it's not starting for you all there in Cartron and long may you have a faultless supply. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

nicolaonfire

Gillie wrote: »

I have lived in Cartron almost all my life and the water has NEVER gone brown for more than a day...

Same as.
All I can remember is being told that the water has been turned off etc.
I just asked mum there and she said the water has never gone brown for that long.
She said it was never brown for no longer than a day and it was always just after the water had been turned off.
She said it has never gone brown around here from the weather.

All my years and parents years living here we have never had to use bottled water for the ordinary tasks.
My first run in with bottled water for that kind of thing was when I moved to Galway in 2007!!
We didn't have it half as bad as them though!

Gillie

Jabby wrote: »

I'm from North Sligo Gillie and I can tell you for a fact that for at least 30 days almost EVERY year since 1983 the water goes brown around here.
Don't ask me why. Anyone from this area will tell you that and we are blue in the face trying to get some of our gob****e county councillors to put pressure on the relevant department to do something about it.

So I hope it's not starting for you all there in Cartron and long may you have a faultless supply. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

Sorry to hear that.

I hope it isn't a sign of things to come...:(

Essexboy

Jabby wrote: »

North Sligo's water has improved marginally I agree, but what's the bets we will be having this discussion again this time next year and the year after ,and after etc.

Spot on!

And where is the water treatment plant promised for early 2008 by one of local councillors?