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From The Irish Times:

Galway emergency water supply suspended


Galway city council has suspended deliveries of water to areas of the city affected by lead contamination after it emerged that the deliveries themselves were also contaminated.

The City Council said emergency street taps installed this week in Old Mervue containted over four times the acceptable level of lead.

The results of further tests will be known on Monday.

The council is arranging for safe drinking water to be delivered from containers.

The Fine Gael Mayor of Galway Cllr Padraig Conneely has called on Minister for Environment John Gormley to appoint a senior official from his department to manage water supplies in the city.

Galway City Council confirmed this week that Old Mervue is the only area of the city were lead is present in distribution pipework, and residents have been advised not to drink or to boil their water.

© 2008 irishtimes.com

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Extremely ... slow ... clap for Galway City Council I think

Overheal

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Karoma

Where oh where is biko?

KnifeWRENCH

*facepalm*

I'm glad I don't live in Galway!

Aodan83

Irish county and city councils arent exactly the best run councils on the planet, but thats just pathetic.

Jay P

Ha ha! LOLOLOL! Etc.

Ah, good ol' Ireland At least we have a health service to help...wait, no we don't. Ah fudge it anyway...

DarkJager

I tried laughing till I cried once, but it ended up hurting my testicles....

ejmaztec

Give 'em some credit. Won't the lead kill the bugs that were already in the water?





(and a couple of people )

Dyr

ffs galway forum /biko

randylonghorn

Isn't there a forum here somewhere for people with too much lead in their pipes? (or maybe it's too little?)

antodeco

I wonder do any of those emails I get for my erectile problems have anything to get rid of my pipe with lead.

luckat

Incidentally, when I lived in Rialto years ago guys working on the road told me all the water pipes there were lead, and I should run the water for 15 minutes in the morning before drinking it.

I wonder if they've been replaced since.

I wonder if they're the same all over Dublin, which probably has some of the oldest water pipes in the country...

javaboy

Galway City Council in the Conservatory with the Lead Piping.

Insect Overlord

javaboy wrote: »

Galway City Council in the Conservatory with the Lead Piping.

Wittiest post of the day!

Seriously though, is there anything in this country that hasn't proved to be a shambles at one time or another? Health Service, water supply, legal system, government... Imagine what it's going to be like when we don't have money to throw around! :eek:

ART6

An Fhile wrote: »

Wittiest post of the day!

Seriously though, is there anything in this country that hasn't proved to be a shambles at one time or another? Health Service, water supply, legal system, government... Imagine what it's going to be like when we don't have money to throw around! :eek:

+1. Where I live the water supply has a musty smell when I boil a kettle, and is frequently brown in colour when it's not turned off without notice. The road past my house is designed by experts to develop regular and deep pot holes that the council fill in once a fortnight with a bit of black top that is guaranteed to fall out again in six days. Road resurfacing as recently undertaken is a matter of dumping tons of granite chippings on it and leaving the traffic to roll it in (either to the ditch or to other cars bodywork or windscreens). But still, all is not lost. We have a lovely city hall:D

Dinter

A bit of lead in the water pipes. . .

People do realise that a lot of water mains, joints etc are sealed with asbestos cement to stop cracks due to temperature changes? That's a tad worse.

kraggy

square_igloo wrote: »

*facepalm*

I'm glad I don't live in Galway!

No you're not.

Coolest place in Ireland.

shane86

kraggy wrote: »

No you're not.

Coolest place in Ireland.

lol.

It is a rainy windswept barren lonely kip that since the mid 90s has somehow managed to sell itself to foreigners/backpackers as a cheesy mecca of culture, tradition and general Oirish to be sureism, whilst simultanouesly marketing itself to Dubs as a bank holiday weekend party town (most of these people being too blind to see they can fly abroad and have a better time for cheaper than heading west on the train). People bound for Auschwitz got a nicer travelling view than you do when you pass through such lovely spots as Athlone, where much of the track side appears to have been abandoned in the 80s.


In short I would quite honestly rather be dead than live there. Which is presumably what motivated people to fight Cromwells forces.

burgess1

Only in Ireland :rolleyes:

kraggy

shane86 wrote: »

lol.

It is a rainy windswept barren lonely kip that since the mid 90s has somehow managed to sell itself to foreigners/backpackers as a cheesy mecca of culture, tradition and general Oirish to be sureism, whilst simultanouesly marketing itself to Dubs as a bank holiday weekend party town (most of these people being too blind to see they can fly abroad and have a better time for cheaper than heading west on the train). People bound for Auschwitz got a nicer travelling view than you do when you pass through such lovely spots as Athlone, where much of the track side appears to have been abandoned in the 80s.


In short I would quite honestly rather be dead than live there. Which is presumably what motivated people to fight Cromwells forces.

I've had this discussion with you before and corrected you on a couple of claims you made, one being that of the price of a train ticket from Dublin to Galway. It's much cheaper than the price of a ticket to Cork. And not as expensive as you made out at the time.

And I'll correct you on another thing. It's not a kip.

You seem to have a serious grudge against Galway. Did you get heartbroken there or something?

SmileyPaul

my god.... there are some real idiots in this world aren't there....

kraggy

In fairness, I think the article is misleading.

It claims that the contaminated, replacement water was delivered but as far as I know it wasn't. They've just set up taps off the mains on the streets in Old Mervue and other affected areas and the pipes away from the houses, in the mains contain lead.

They haven't brought contaminated water in tankers or anything.

So it's not as ridiculous as the article suggests.

shane86

kraggy wrote: »

I've had this discussion with you before and corrected you on a couple of claims you made, one being that of the price of a train ticket from Dublin to Galway. It's much cheaper than the price of a ticket to Cork. And not as expensive as you made out at the time.

Close on fifty return 2 years ago, god knows how much now.

You seem to have a serious grudge against Galway. Did you get heartbroken there or something?

No. Actually the amount of good looking dark haired/tanned birds there is about its only saving grace.

Apart from that, I just find the whole place....meh. Pricey, fake culture, tourist trap, inflated sense of importance, if I want a destination where I have to buy bottled to avoid dangerous local tap water Ill go on a mad one to the med instead.

javaboy

kraggy wrote: »

I've had this discussion with you before and corrected you on a couple of claims you made, one being that of the price of a train ticket from Dublin to Galway. It's much cheaper than the price of a ticket to Cork.

Rules of supply and demand. Obviously nobody wants to go to Galway!

kraggy

javaboy wrote: »

Rules of supply and demand. Obviously nobody wants to go to Galway!

Like to see ya try get a seat on a train to Galway at the weekend.

randylonghorn

An Fhile wrote: »

Seriously though, is there anything in this country that hasn't proved to be a shambles at one time or another? Health Service, water supply, legal system, government... Imagine what it's going to be like when we don't have money to throw around! :eek:

It was a shambles before the "Tiger", a shambles during, and it will continue to be a shambles after ...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!

shane86 wrote: »

lol.

It is a rainy windswept barren lonely kip that since the mid 90s has somehow managed to sell itself to foreigners/backpackers as a cheesy mecca of culture, tradition and general Oirish to be sureism, whilst simultanouesly marketing itself to Dubs as a bank holiday weekend party town (most of these people being too blind to see they can fly abroad and have a better time for cheaper than heading west on the train). People bound for Auschwitz got a nicer travelling view than you do when you pass through such lovely spots as Athlone, where much of the track side appears to have been abandoned in the 80s.

In short I would quite honestly rather be dead than live there. Which is presumably what motivated people to fight Cromwells forces.

shane86 wrote: »

Apart from that, I just find the whole place....meh. Pricey, fake culture, tourist trap, inflated sense of importance, if I want a destination where I have to buy bottled to avoid dangerous local tap water Ill go on a mad one to the med instead.

Try looking under the surface.

It's a good place to live ... not perfect, but I'd choose it over Dublin any day.

Actually, now I come to think of it ... I have!

Jemmy

luckat wrote: »

Incidentally, when I lived in Rialto years ago guys working on the road told me all the water pipes there were lead, and I should run the water for 15 minutes in the morning before drinking it.

I wonder if they've been replaced since.

I wonder if they're the same all over Dublin, which probably has some of the oldest water pipes in the country...

And if they turned off the water for days to replace all the piping you'd all still bloody moan, so they cant win. :rolleyes:

javaboy

kraggy wrote: »

Like to see ya try get a seat on a train to Galway at the weekend.

I'd love to but I've a whole wall of drying paint here and it's not going to watch itself.

Just kidding. I love Galway.

WooPeeA

Thanks God I don't drink water from the sink.. no tea, no coffee at all. Only bottled water and juices. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately I can't use juice for the shower if the lead matters anything there..

javaboy

WooPeeA wrote: »

Thanks God I don't drink water from the sink.. no tea, no coffee at all. Only bottled water and juices. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately I can't use juice for the shower if the lead matters anything there..

I wouldn't worry too much about the lead for washing/showering etc. Sure didn't they cake themselves in lead based makeup back in the 1700's? And it never did them any harm........ oh wait...... they're all dead aren't they. Can't be a coincidence that.

kraggy

javaboy wrote: »

I wouldn't worry too much about the lead for washing/showering etc. Sure didn't they cake themselves in lead based makeup back in the 1700's? And it never did them any harm........ oh wait...... they're all dead aren't they. Can't be a coincidence that.

No there's still a few of them knocking round Coppers.

Hagar

luckat wrote: »

residents have been advised not to drink or to boil their water.

I can see how boiling would be effective in killing bacteria, but how do you boil lead out of water?

Insect Overlord

Hagar wrote: »

I can see how boiling would be effective in killing bacteria, but how do you boil lead out of water?

You don't! That's the problem. Some people think you can, and run the risk of poisoning themselves.

luckat

shane86 wrote: »

In short I would quite honestly rather be dead than live there. Which is presumably what motivated people to fight Cromwells forces.

Falling around laughing! It never occurred to me that this could be the reason. "Hell or Connacht..... hmmm, hard choice.... hmm, hand me that oul' pike there."

biko

This is of grave national concern as the Hens and Stags from the east need to be warned not to drink the water in Galway*


*eh feck it, G forum pls.

pickarooney

An Fhile wrote: »

You don't! That's the problem. Some people think you can, and run the risk of poisoning themselves.

Just leave it for a bit until the lead sinks to the bottom and then scoop the clean water off the top.

Fratton Fred

shane86 wrote: »

Apart from that, I just find the whole place....meh. Pricey, fake culture, tourist trap, inflated sense of importance, if I want a destination where I have to buy bottled to avoid dangerous local tap water Ill go on a mad one to the med instead.

Which makes it different to Dublin because.......

javaboy

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Which makes it different to Dublin because.......

The water quality.

Thephantomsmask

Dinter wrote: »

A bit of lead in the water pipes. . .

People do realise that a lot of water mains, joints etc are sealed with asbestos cement to stop cracks due to temperature changes? That's a tad worse.

Asbestos is only harmful when it's dust/fibres are inhaled as it causes lung scarring in the smaller airspaces responsible for gas exchange. It's not going to do any harm to the public as a pipe sealant unless some unfortunue workman gets a lungful of it doing a repair job from not wearing a respirator