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High Liffey

  • 03-11-2009 11:22am
    #1
    cruizer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭


    Anyone see the Liffey this morning I passed over at 11 and its the higest i have ever seen it, and i've been going over for 6 years. The two outer arches on Butt bridge were completly covered and even the cetre main one only had a very small bit of room. I reckon even the liffey ferry flat boat thing would have had trouble passing under.

    I know we had a bit of heavy rain last night but still very high.


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  • #2
    lightening
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    Full moon, so we have a spring tide.


  • #3
    glossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭glossy


    :D after reading your post yesterday, well courtisy got to me while on the bus heading home, and had a look, even though looked to me the river was going out was higher then i noticed ...


  • #4
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    er...I saw it come up over the walls at Butt Bridge once....get the sandbags!!!


  • #5
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    Riskymove wrote: »
    er...I saw it come up over the walls at Butt Bridge once....get the sandbags!!!
    Really,I've often wondered would it rise high enough to breech the walls.


  • #6
    gar32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭gar32


    Does any one know if the liffey has broken its banks before? I live near it am my car is in a basement car park. Is there a warning system? I have heard there is a flood protection system but where and how?

    Regards


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  • #7
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    gar32 wrote: »
    Does any one know if the liffey has broken its banks before?
    It has several times but they have been upstream in west Dublin/Kildare. I don't ever recall it breeching the walls along the quays (but I'm open to correction).


  • #8
    Oliver1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It has several times but they have been upstream in west Dublin/Kildare. I don't ever recall it breeching the walls along the quays (but I'm open to correction).

    I dont think it ever completly burst now but I remember doing night work about ten year back and a good bit of water was coming over!!!


  • #9
    ParkRunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭ParkRunner


    I work in an office overlooking the liffey and see it everyday. It seems to get very close to the boardwalk alright but theres another few feet to go before it would breach the walls thankfully. Ive only seen the boarwalk closed once after the liffey breached that..but that seems to be pretty much at ground level. Thank god for those high walls :)


  • #10
    Smokey Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Smokey Bear


    Check out floodmaps.ie great site by the OPW.Select an area ie dublin-Christchurch area and will show you were floods have happened before.
    http://www.floodmaps.ie/View/Default.aspx

    Smokey Bear


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