Ringsend Plant Overflow

TheW1zard

Why isnt anyone talking about this?
How is it a plant designed 15 years ago cannot cope with heavy rain!?
If they insist on discharging water why dont they build a pipe out to sea?

Del.Monte

TheW1zard wrote: »

Why isnt anyone talking about this?
How is it a plant designed 15 years ago cannot cope with heavy rain!?
If they insist on discharging water why dont they build a pipe out to sea?

Agree with you except that pumping it out to sea is no solution.

The journal did a good article on it a few days ago. It seems to be plant operating at full capacity even on a normal day.

So any extra inflow or unexpected event will cause problems.

There's a lot of objections to building another one so expect this sort of stuff to continue.

TheW1zard

Load of **** if you ask me

baaba maal

This seemed to pass people by, but the original plan iirc was that Ringsend would deal with the city and south Dublin, while a separate treatment plant was to be built near Portrane for north Dublin. I don't think it was just down to local opposition, but the proposal for Portrane was abandoned and instead and a pumping station and interconnector was built at Sutton: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/200m-project-for-sewage-treatment-in-dublin-outlined-1.33148

So Ringsend was always going to struggle as the original capacity limit was reached far sooner than was planned for- the promised water quality targets in the article look a little off at this stage.

heebusjeebus

Is there not always overflow coming from the plant?
Looking at the satellite image of the plant in Google maps, there is a brown effulent joining the main body of water.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3412659,-6.1823039,463m/data=!3m1!1e3

dak

Currently Ringsend is been retro fitted with Nereda Technology which takes up a lot less space and when completed Ringsend will be able to cope with 2.4million people equivalent. Population of Greater Dublin Area is 1.9million expected to grow to 2.2 million by 2030

If Ringsend is over capacity presently there must be a lot of Industrial waste water mixed in .

There is growing opposition Northside to the proposed Plant at Clonshaugh and outfall to Irelands eye . Solution not pollution https://www.facebook.com/opt4eco/ is a dublin based group who have the support of Damien Dempsey and John Connors and some world class Marine Biologists who have an alternative ECO Friendly negative Carbon solution using wetlands and reed beds .

Already 5000+ supporters have signed the petition http://iwillsign.eu

Website: www.solutionnotpollution.com

Other FB pages discussing this issue
Portmarnock Drainage awareness https://www.facebook.com/PortmarnockDrainageAwareness

Portmarnock Community association
https://www.facebook.com/PortmarnockCommunityAssociation/

Effects

dak wrote: »

Solution not pollution https://www.facebook.com/opt4eco/ is a dublin based group who have the support of Damien Dempsey and John Connors

Says everything you need to know about them so.

TheW1zard

https://www.thejournal.ie/river-liffey-sewage-4747068-Jul2019/
Lovely

all the bais

Liffey swim this weekend too

TheW1zard wrote: »

https://www.thejournal.ie/river-liffey-sewage-4747068-Jul2019/
Lovely

Effects

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2019/0802/1066704-liffey-water-quality/