Flood risk Drumcondra - latest

Pink11

Hi has anyone any detail around the current status on the Tolka/Drumcondra flood risk? I’m reading following some horrific flooding a scheme was implemented and wondering is this completed? Has it lowered the risk?

I’ve been trying to contact the local council and others for detail but struggling to get an answer. Thanks

bobbyy gee

flooding

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/a78594-tolka-river-dublin-fingal-and-meath-flood-relief-schemes/

Pink11

bobbyy gee wrote: »

flooding

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/a78594-tolka-river-dublin-fingal-and-meath-flood-relief-schemes/

Thank you!

If anyone living in area could confirm if they had any flooding issues in the last few years it’d be awesome too!

Atlantic Dawn

It's a place houses should never have been built, nothing to do with global warming, all to do with piss poor planning, they knew in 1954 it wasn't suitable, idiots building on the site after this.

The River Tolka has a history of flooding following heavy rainfall, which has been well documented after major flood events in 1954. The river has been the subject of a number of investigations, and of most significance were those carried out in 1955 and 1986.

RobbingBandit

Flash floods occurred a few times in the past 15 years, on one occasion the tolka river burst it's banks at Mobhi road(Dean Swift's Bridge) and Washer Woman's hill(Met.ie HQ) where the flooding spilled out into the Ballymun Road past the Griffith Avenue junction it's a very seldom seen phenomenon to have rain like that fall in such a short burst in the Dublin area, the tolka river and the dodder are susceptible to flooding at certain points hopefully these forecasted autumn and winter storms aren't the same type of weather systems.

Marcos

Well, if the City Council wanted to do anything about that, one of the first things they could do is clear the Tolka of debris. That was identified as one of the things that made the flooding worse the last time, and they even had a JCB in the river to clear them out afterwards.

But it's Dublin City Council so I wouldn't hold my breath.

neris