White coloured water in the Corrib

snubbleste

Construction site at Nuig is turning one of the streams white with run-off.
It flows into the very high fast flowing Corrib at Nuns Island, creating an interesting juxtaposition of brown/blue and white side by side.

biko

Any chance of a pic?

Randall Floyd

Probably just sediment runoff or something, where exactly is the construction site?

desaparecidos

Maybe it's builders spunk.

jenno86

desaparecidos wrote: »

Maybe it's builders spunk.

No doubt.

Ficheall

Randall Floyd wrote: »

where exactly is the construction site?

The entirety of NUIG is a sodding construction site.

snubbleste

When I went back a few hours later, it was much diminished and diluted. Maybe they read boards..

snubbleste

Actually does anyone know the name of the stream? Is it Gaol river?
It runs south along the Nuig concourse, under the new pedestrian bridge, under the eglinton canal, then re-emerges in the Corrib at the above location.
Does it go under the Cathedral
The Eglinton Canal & outlets had no white colour in it today.

westgolf

snubbleste wrote: »

Actually does anyone know the name of the stream? Is it Gaol river?
It runs south along the Nuig concourse, under the new pedestrian bridge, under the eglinton canal, then re-emerges in the Corrib at the above location.
Does it go under the Cathedral
The Eglinton Canal & outlets had no white colour in it today.

splits between the ped.bridge and wards bridge. The left stream goes behind island house, under old hygeia/mills building and down behind nuns island houses. Somewhere behind cathedral PP house is an outlet from an old millrace probably where the apartment block is now.

westy

snubbleste

splits between the ped.bridge and wards bridge. The left stream goes behind island house, under old hygeia/mills building and down behind nuns island houses.

That is an outlet from the Eglinton canal and emerges further south. I think it's called Persse's Distillery river.

Somewhere behind cathedral PP house is an outlet from an old millrace probably where the apartment block is now.

That one had no white coloured water in it either - runs along the Film buildings, between Fisheries Field and the new apartments, and then along the Corrib seperated by an embankment.

jkforde

I photographed a similar discharge last March, brought it the council's attention and even though I got email replies no confirmed action was taken afaik.

Zzippy

jkforde wrote: »

I photographed a similar discharge last March, brought it the council's attention and even though I got email replies no confirmed action was taken afaik.

As its downstream of the water intake for drinking water they probably didn't give a XXXX. This incident is being investigated by Inland Fisheries after it was reported to them yesterday

jkforde

snubbleste wrote: »

Actually does anyone know the name of the stream? Is it Gaol river?
It runs south along the Nuig concourse, under the new pedestrian bridge, under the eglinton canal, then re-emerges in the Corrib at the above location.
Does it go under the Cathedral
The Eglinton Canal & outlets had no white colour in it today.

the Engineering Dept in NUIG has a map of the waterways in their office which they'll copy for you if you ask nicely, here's a copy I got off them...

mb20064

It could just be lime or something similar that has run off into the water.

45mhrc7evo1d3n

Zzippy wrote: »

As its downstream of the water intake for drinking water they probably didn't give a XXXX. This incident is being investigated by Inland Fisheries after it was reported to them yesterday

Really glad to hear this is being investigated. I was alarmed to see the water in the river on campus was totally white/grey in colour yesterday afternoon. Also very sad to see a heron standing in it later on wondering why he couldn't see anything in the water . Whether or not it is affecting drinking water it must be affecting the wildlife there and that particular stretch is a haven for them as it is very quiet and undisturbed generally.

stampydmonkey

Chaya Massive Lightning wrote: »

Really glad to hear this is being investigated. I was alarmed to see the water in the river on campus was totally white/grey in colour yesterday afternoon. Also very sad to see a heron standing in it later on wondering why he couldn't see anything in the water . Whether or not it is affecting drinking water it must be affecting the wildlife there and that particular stretch is a haven for them as it is very quiet and undisturbed generally.

its used by kayakers to get onto the lower corrib. they get on at fisheries field and paddle down. Its known as the "sh1t shute" as its far from undisturbed. it is absolutely full of trolleys, bikes, and rubbish/waste of all sorts. we used to clean it up periodically but haven't been down in ages. great to hear fisheries are lookin into this. potentially polluted runoff from a building site should be attenuated or treated somehow prior to discharge, especially if flowing directly into a salmonoid river.

45mhrc7evo1d3n

stampydmonkey wrote: »

its used by kayakers to get onto the lower corrib. they get on at fisheries field and paddle down. Its known as the "sh1t shute" as its far from undisturbed. it is absolutely full of trolleys, bikes, and rubbish/waste of all sorts. we used to clean it up periodically but haven't been down in ages. great to hear fisheries are lookin into this. potentially polluted runoff from a building site should be attenuated or treated somehow prior to discharge, especially if flowing directly into a salmonoid river.

I think we may be talking about different areas, the area I was specifically referring to is the narrow stretch of water flowing under the bridge leading to the College Bar.

Irishgoatman

The 'photo that snubbleste posted earlier was incredible. Whoever was causing that amount of pollution should be keel hauled into court.

No-way could they not know what they were doing. In this day and age there is no excuse for doing that.:mad:

stampydmonkey

Chaya Massive Lightning wrote: »

I think we may be talking about different areas, the area I was specifically referring to is the narrow stretch of water flowing under the bridge leading to the College Bar.

possibly different sections of the same body of water. you can see it on the engineering pdf attached in one of the posts above. It flows under the Nuig concourse, past the college bar and under the main canal, out to fisheries field between the nuig hydrology building and rowing/kayaking sheds, alongside the footway opposite the cathedral, under the salmon weir bridge and out into the corrib just below the fish gates (as in the second picture posted above).