no running water

Blackpitts

there is no running water in my building in D8, is the same for you guys?
i've just read this
07/01/2010 - 13:55:21

Fingal County Council has warned homeowners and farmers in north Dublin to stop leaving taps running as reservoirs were rapidly draining.

It is believed people worried about frozen pipes have been leaving water to flow from taps to keep the cold at bay.

Fingal said water supplies from the Ballycoolen reservoir were critically low.

“If supplies in this reservoir remain at current low levels the council will have to reduce water pressure in all areas until water supply level returns to normal levels,” a spokeswoman said.

admiralofthefleet

if you are in dublin 8 you should contact dublin city council water division

their details are:

For more information

Dublin City Council
Water Services Division
Marrowbone Lane
Dublin 8

Tel: (01) 222 0600
Fax: (01) 453 4849

dr_funkenstein

I'm in D2. Think mine has stopped at some stage today.. just realised my hot water tank is empty

There's water coming from my cold water tap but I suspect thats just from the tank Must check with neighbours tomorrow if they're the same.

Gavin "shels"

Only one person on my road doesn't have water. Doesn't seem to be D8 as a whole without water.

Victor

Quite a few burst mains due to the cold, so there will be local and general effects.

Micilin Muc

Water must have been turned off in Dublin 6 this evening. I doubt my pipes are frozen because we have had no problems with it until now and tonight has been the warmest night all year

Mantel

I'm on the Ballybough end of Richmond Road and no water this morning. Can't see any leaks about the place so it doesn't look like a frozen pipe in the house. No neighbours about to ask about their water Got a ton of water for brewing that's been eyed up for tea now!

Sundew

The hubby works D 8.
Hopefully he will get sent home for the afternoon

Bart Roberts

Yea water is completely gone in work here. No toilets or anything. Better have D6 fixed by tomorrow.

Duffer2

Water off in the Churchtown/Dundrum area, due on at the minute until 7pm but nothing currently coming out of the taps. Will apparently be on again between 7 and 9 tomorrow morning. First world country my arse.

Thanks for the warning to DLRCoCo, and the provision of a standpipe or similar.

Oh wait, we don't have either of those things... I had to go onto their website to find out they had decided to cut off one of the basic necessities of life.

antoniosicily

In Smithfield no water since Friday evening, called the Dublin City Council this morning and they told me that they have not liable, we just have to wait, even if it lasts one week or more.

It's a ridiculous answer, I have to buy water (and I'm not disabled or anything, but what if I couldn't buy it?), there was some water this morning and then they decided to cut it.

The minister says that people are consuming too much water, I would like to know these people, I don't think that there are many, I suspect that the water reserves are depleted because a thaw is coming and many pipes are burst or have leaks.

This does not make any sense, just a few degrees below zero and I don't have water in my house for *many* days; and I live in the city centre of the capital of Ireland, not in the middle of nowhere.

Squeaksoutloud

Water supply just gone in Dublin 6W...anyone else?

Just looked up the SDCC webpage and they are giving warnings alright. Bring on the thaw and heavy rain tomorrow so!

http://www.sdcc.ie/

happyfriday

Anyone else in the Rathgar area having problems??

swingking

same situation here in Templeogue.

South Dublin County Council have a lot of fcuking answer for. No warning whatsoever was given and all the shops closeby have ran out of bottled water.


Regular updates are supposedly on http://www.sdcc.ie - regular my ass! Last update was at 6.30pm


Ridiculous!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

crosstownk

Water has been off here in D6W since 11am. I'm trying to conserve what's left in the attic header tank as best I can.

I had low pressure yesterday which was so low that I had a minimal flow from the kitchen tap and zero flow to the header tank. The header tank drained leaving me without water throughout the rest of the house. I rang SDCC emergency number and they told me that there was a supply problem from the Belgard reservoir. Pressure returned overnight but as I stated above the supply has stopped since 11am this morning.

Supermintyfresh

anyone have their water cut in the castleknock and coolmine area, i have milk and all that for drinking but cant use the toilet , i have to melt snow and pour it into the toilet to get a flush and all because some p***ks are running water 24/7

crosstownk

Supermintyfresh wrote: »

anyone have their water cut in the castleknock and coolmine area, i have milk and all that for drinking but cant use the toilet , i have to melt snow and pour it into the toilet to get a flush and all because some p***ks are running water 24/7

It sounds like you've the same problem I had yesterday - reduced pressure. There is insufficient pressure to drive water up to your storage tank in the attic.

Zoodlebop

NO TEA!

sob:(

Gumbo

im in Meakstown, North Finglas and my water has been grand up until about 5 mins ago!

i filled the kettle and notice the smell from the steam when it was boiling. i poured the tea and it tastes so funny too.

the hot water tap smells ok, but the cold water tap is smelling bad. kinda bordering on a gas smell but not quite gas if you get my drift

Fingal County Council Area.

jennybean21

in rathmines, dublin 6, only water in my cold tap in the kitchen since saturday night, no water in bathroom or shower or any hot water.... ahhhh when is the water going to be back?? so much for the big freeze affecting our water, its the stupid b***ards leaving their taps running all day!!!!! :mad:

Sorry

No water here in Rathmines, an utter disgrace. What a Mickey Mouse country this is.

Damo 2k9

kceire wrote: »

im in Meakstown, North Finglas and my water has been grand up until about 5 mins ago!

i filled the kettle and notice the smell from the steam when it was boiling. i poured the tea and it tastes so funny too.

the hot water tap smells ok, but the cold water tap is smelling bad. kinda bordering on a gas smell but not quite gas if you get my drift

Fingal County Council Area.

Yeh im living in finglas aswell, and my sister was like "taste that water to see if it tastes weird" i tasted it and was like :eek:, it tastes like s**t.

Sorry

Damo 2k9 wrote: »

Yeh im living in finglas aswell, and my sister was like "taste that water to see if it tastes weird" i tasted it and was like :eek:, it tastes like s**t.

Apparently Noel Ahern took a dump in the reservoir early today

TCP/IP_King

Blackpitts wrote: »

there is no running water in my building in D8, is the same for you guys?

Report your outage here ...

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=103576889644122032492.00047ce5de0b0ac35f7d0

I don't know how much good this will do, but at least your helping to build up a picture.
You need a google account to edit however.

mad DIY

Water still out in Terenure. So much for hoping they'd turn it back on at least temporarily in the morning.

mad DIY

I have just rung Dublin Corporation (City council) for an update. They have reduced water pressure because of leaks and broken water mains, which has resulted in areas that usually have low water pressure anyway not getting water at all. They have no idea how long this will last, but there will be an announcement in the next hour or so regarding sending water tankers out to affected areas, so I was advised to keep an eye on their website or on the news.

hugoline

From breakingnews.ie

12/01/2010 - 11:35:18
Dublin City Council has shut water off in several parts of the city.

Finglas, Terenure, Cabra, Killester, Rathgar, Rathmines and parts of the North Circular Road are affected.

Tankers are available to help residents.

A spokeswoman could not say how long the supplies would be cut.

tripper167

We've had no water since sometime early yesterday morning, we're in Santry. Hopefully it'll be back up and running soon.

Angry Troll

[FONT=&quot]water in phibsboro on and off erratically over the last few days…usually on in morning, off in evening…anybody have any info on how long that is to continue? a tad annoying to come home from work and have no water…dishes piling up in kitchen and all…luckily bathroom works from some tank and still has water and pipes in the house seem to be okay…otherwise i’d be really ****ed…[/FONT]

mad DIY

mad DIY wrote: »

I have just rung Dublin Corporation (City council) for an update. They have reduced water pressure because of leaks and broken water mains, which has resulted in areas that usually have low water pressure anyway not getting water at all. They have no idea how long this will last, but there will be an announcement in the next hour or so regarding sending water tankers out to affected areas, so I was advised to keep an eye on their website or on the news.

Hmm, no mention as yet on their website about water tankers to the southside of the city.

InKonspikuou2

So what are you supposed to do? Turn up with a bucket or something to these water tankers? I have nothing to put water in that would be enough to last over night.

happyfriday

Why so few on the Southside of the city? It's a brave walk from Rathmines to Terenure with a few bottles of water weighing you down!!! :rolleyes:

http://www.dublincity.ie/Pages/WaterUpdates.aspx

Sorry

It's a load of bollocks, to be honest. What is one supposed to do, bring a few empty milk bottles, fill them up and walk back home? It takes around two of those 2L bottles just to flush our toilet once. There's no point.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Sorry wrote: »

It's a load of bollocks, to be honest. What is one supposed to do, bring a few empty milk bottles, fill them up and walk back home? It takes around two of those 2L bottles just to flush our toilet once. There's no point.

Those Oxfam and Trocaire ads about kids walking 10miles with a few litres of water on their heads kinda hit home now don't they?!


There was a pipe on Fortfield Road in Dublin 6/6W burst that has been repaired:

http://www.sdcc.ie/

Updated 6pm, 12th, January, 2010
The burst main at Fortfield Road at the junction of College Drive has been repaired and water in the area has been fully restored.

Loss of Supply to North of Naas Road
Areas north of the Naas Road have now lost their water supply. This is Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin with the exception of Clondalkin Village, Monastery, Green Isle Area, Newcastle and Rathcoole.

The supply will remain off until 4.00 a.m. Therefore customers should have water back in their homes by 9:00 a.m.

All homes will have 24 hour storage in their overhead tanks from water supplies which were restored earlier today. Households should however take conservation measures as detailed in the published conservation notice

Known Burst Water Mains Issues

The burst main at Cherryfield in Walkinstown has been repaired and water in the area has been fully restored

The burst mains at Knocklyon and Loughtown are still being investigated however they are not causing customers to be left without water.

01-4149000
The South Dublin County Council phone line is available for general queries in relation to water supply tonight.

01-4574907
The Council emergency number is available for emergencies and the reporting of burst water mains only

John Mason

hugoline wrote: »

From breakingnews.ie

hmm, i have water in finglas

Jet Black

irishbird wrote: »

hmm, i have water in finglas

Me too but the I was taking to a guy that lives near clearwater and he says some people in his estate dont have water are some do.

--LOS--

Maybe just coz they havent emptied their tank yet, Im in sa cabhrach and weve no water but one of my housemates did have to have a 30min shower yesterday morning , evening and this morning knowing the pressure was low :mad: There was no electricity yesterday for a bit, now no water and I got soaked today ......the irony

Gumbo

irishbird wrote: »

hmm, i have water in finglas

my mam and dad have full water in Finglas South too, but i still have none up the road in Meakstown

Red Sleeping Beauty

http://www.sdcc.ie/

Tallaght

Tallaght Village
Glenview
Balrothery
Kingswood Heights
Village Green
Alderwood

Templeogue/Rathfarnham

Templeogue Wood
Templeville Drive
Rathfarnham road
Beauford Downs
Butterfield Orchard
Wainsfort
Kilakee Ave
Delaford
Orwell Park

Walkinstown/Perrystown
St. Josephs Road

** Updated 8pm, January 12th, 2010

(Please note the next update will be at 8:30am, Wednesday, Jan 13th, 2010)

Loss of Supply to Areas
Customers south of the Naas Road are now experiencing significant loss of pressure which is leading to a loss of supply. This is affecting the areas contained in this list

Full pressure will be restored at 6am. It takes time for the water to make its way through the network and it is estimated that all area’s will have their supply restored by mid to late morning.

Pattylou

January 13th.
12.15am

Water went off at 10pm last night, was given no warning. I live in Dartry.
I have had no bathroom facilities for a week, no hot water, only one cold tap working in the house and now it's gone. My clothes have been in the washmachine for a week. We did not get any warning. I feel very sorry for the sick and elderly. This is not good enough. It appears to me to be very bad water management. I'm 61years of age and we have had bad weather in this country before, but it seems that the local councils have not updated the services to the country and because they didn't bother and didn't prepare for a snow fall, the country is falling apart. The current problems are due to bad organisation and forward planning by the government. the FF government have let us down badly, very badly.:cool:

jackofalltrades

InKonspikuou2 wrote:

So what are you supposed to do? Turn up with a bucket or something to these water tankers? I have nothing to put water in that would be enough to last over night.

Sorry wrote:

It's a load of bollocks, to be honest. What is one supposed to do, bring a few empty milk bottles, fill them up and walk back home? It takes around two of those 2L bottles just to flush our toilet once. There's no point.

You need to get bigger water containers. Camping shops sell containers from 10-60 litres. Also you don't need to use drinking water to flush your toilet. You can put a bucket under your drain pipes or collect some water from a mountain stream if you have access to a car.

Angry Troll

water seems back in phibsboro...hope it stays back...will see tonight...

Still water in kilbarrack but its feels like it draining the tank.

antoniosicily

I'm wondering why the south dublin county council is updating people with precise information and the dublin city council does not give a **** to tell people what is going on.

mad DIY

antoniosicily wrote: »

I'm wondering why the south dublin county council is updating people with precise information and the dublin city council does not give a **** to tell people what is going on.

+1, my sentiments exactly, SDCC info and action seems to be a lot more orgainsed and effective than that of DCC

Angry Troll

****'s sake...water pressure in phibsborough still so low i have no water in the kitchen...i've just about had it with that ****...this is just a sick joke...

Micilin Muc

Batchelor's have put 40 staff in Cabra on protective notice because of the lack of water. But what's most interesting about it is that they have said that

Dublin City Council is 'unable to offer clear guidance on the timing of the likely resumption of full water supplies' to the facility.

Very bad communications there by DCC.

prettyboy81

Why DCC fault? They can only communicate what they know & the problem is not just localised but they whole country....

How can any definitive timeline be given? Water problem is as a result of people panicking leaving taps running & also pipes cracking during the cold causing a feck load of leaks in Dublin.

antoniosicily

prettyboy81 wrote: »

Why DCC fault? They can only communicate what they know & the problem is not just localised but they whole country....

How can any definitive timeline be given? Water problem is as a result of people panicking leaving taps running & also pipes cracking during the cold causing a feck load of leaks in Dublin.

water problem are the results of pipes not insulated and crappy policies about how depth a water pipe can be? It went down to -3 and everything was frozen, do you think that this happens in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada? Not even in that third world country that it is Italy!

This is the 5th day without water and the DCC is not able to say which places have water and which places have not (how come the SDCC can state it in the website?).

Are they not able to give me a timeline? They should hire someone to do their job instead, if I'm not able to give a timeline to my manager he will fire me and I can bet that John Tierney & co. are even more paid than me.

Now water supplies are depleted and they tell people not to fill tanks with water because this will create a vicious circle, honestly I'd much prefer to fill as many tanks as possible rather than waiting on people who are not able do their job.

This is the result of wrong policies, you cannot put that pressure on citizens, again, it's been the 5th day without water in Smithfield (= city centre) and I'm not elderly or handicapped, but what if??? How would the country help me? If you're fine everything will be fine, otherwise you're on your own and with the DCC we're on our own. Let's hope that some day we will get the water back, obviously they won't refund me the water bottles I bought because, as they told me, water is free of charge so I cannot complain.

I agree with a previous comment: what a Mickey Mouse country this is.

TCP/IP_King

Sorry wrote: »

It's a load of bollocks, to be honest. What is one supposed to do, bring a few empty milk bottles, fill them up and walk back home? It takes around two of those 2L bottles just to flush our toilet once. There's no point.

Just goes to illustrate the few short steps we are away from anarchy.
Don't rely on the government for anything, they're as clueless and as disorganised as the general population.
Then again you can always try
http://www.emergencyplanning.ie/downloads_.aspx
for more info !!

Angry Troll

antoniosicily wrote: »

water problem are the results of pipes not insulated and crappy policies about how depth a water pipe can be? It went down to -3 and everything was frozen, do you think that this happens in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada? Not even in that third world country that it is Italy!

This is the 5th day without water and the DCC is not able to say which places have water and which places have not (how come the SDCC can state it in the website?).

Are they not able to give me a timeline? They should hire someone to do their job instead, if I'm not able to give a timeline to my manager he will fire me and I can bet that John Tierney & co. are even more paid than me.

Now water supplies are depleted and they tell people not to fill tanks with water because this will create a vicious circle, honestly I'd much prefer to fill as many tanks as possible rather than waiting on people who are not able do their job.

This is the result of wrong policies, you cannot put that pressure on citizens, again, it's been the 5th day without water in Smithfield (= city centre) and I'm not elderly or handicapped, but what if??? How would the country help me? If you're fine everything will be fine, otherwise you're on your own and with the DCC we're on our own. Let's hope that some day we will get the water back, obviously they won't refund me the water bottles I bought because, as they told me, water is free of charge so I cannot complain.

I agree with a previous comment: what a Mickey Mouse country this is.

it is indeed pathetic beyond belief...