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Letterkenny A&E flooded 2014

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    #62
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Someone needs to be held accountable for this. It's just a gross waste of tax payers and insurance money!

    Why wasn't it fixed?


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    #63
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Letterkenny though is the most populated part of the county, it makes sense to have the General Hospital there.

    If they were to build the A&E anywhere else, they would have had to build a whole new hospital as well. No point building an A&E with out wards and operating thretres, diaognostics, etc etc, within the same buildings grounds.

    The ground its self was never previously susceptible to flooding, again, LGH is on the side of a hill. However, its design, has now created ground susceptible to flooding. Location was never an issue, its the flawed design thats the issue.

    If we can't build a brand new A&E that doesn't get flooded every second year then we're doing something wrong. That‘s the only point I have made.


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    #64
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    If we can't build a brand new A&E that doesn't get flooded every second year then we're doing something wrong. That‘s the only point I have made.

    Not disagreeing with you on that point at all.


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    #65
    kneemos
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    Was the A+E attached to the hospital and if so where else would they have put it.


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    #66
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    You know in some countries, if you built a public medical facility in a hole causing it to flood frequently, you would be held criminally liable.


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    #67
    Vandango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Vandango


    teotihuacan wrote: »
    For the last 13 months there has been a 20-ton digger sitting outside the new A&E department, at a cost of €500 a week (pure corruption) incase further flooding occurred.

    Something tells me that the brother of the guy who built the hospital, probably owns the digger.


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    #68
    SpaceTime
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    Sure it wouldn't ever happen in the sun parched landscape of Donegal where it never rains.


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    #69
    petrolcan
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    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    It is impressive how it floods so badly when its on top of a big enough hill.

    Whilst it may be on the top of a big hill it is also at the bottom of an even bigger hill.

    From the news reports the water came from a different direction from last year.

    The amount of building that has gone on over the past 20 years up behind the hospital must have something to do with it too.


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    #70
    Harry Palmr
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    Didn't someone think to do a hydrology survey?


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    #71
    The Backwards Man
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Didn't someone think to do a hydrology survey?

    Picture this.

    A rolling hollow, two state of the art buildings nestled at the bottom of it, grass swaying in the summer breeze, two lovers out for a walk in the distance as the sun sets on the horizon.

    Who gives a fcuk about practicalities when the artists impression looks so good?


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    #72
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,123 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Didn't someone think to do a hydrology survey?

    A wha? Shur there would be no need for that when there's money to be made!

    A lot of the Letterkenny/Donegal councillors are heavily involved in construction, some even owning their own companies. Which must be a bonus as they are also responsible for planning decisions...


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    #73
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    A pity none have shares in a surveying company eh? Ballymagash strikes again.


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    #74
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    here is a street view link showing the back of the A & E at Letterkenny when construction was almost complete.


    There was a panic over the opening of the A & E because McNamara Construction had folded within weeks of the project being completed, and the gates to the site were locked one morning and no workers were allowed in... not that this had anything to do with why the building flooded, they were at the 2nd fixings stage when money ran out.


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    #75
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,275 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    There's guys on the radio today trying to justify it by saying the water this time came from a different source!

    No, the last water came from the sky too.


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    #76
    opiniated
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    There's guys on the radio today trying to justify it by saying the water this time came from a different source!

    No, the last water came from the sky too.

    I believe it ran down from the main road.

    You're right though, the rainwater fell from the sky - it just flowed into A&E in a different direction to the last time.


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    #77
    darkpagandeath
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    They know when building Defences against flooding "Water is a liquid" it will find a way around ? Did they spend 45 odd mill on defending where it came from last time ?


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