What Would it Take to Clean-up the Liffey?

Kappar

I was thinking to myself why is the Liffey so dirty and smelly? I think that if it was cleaned up it would be a really nice feature to our City. At the moment it it is a horrible brown, smells and is full or crap.

What is being pumped into the river? What would it take to try and make the Liffey cleaner?

the_syco

Trace it back, and you'll find a good few factories pumping into it...

Firewalkwithme

Kappar wrote:

What would it take to try and make the Liffey cleaner?

Kim and Aggie

Sleepy

Three tonnes of water purifying tablets?

Chalk

keith barry?

Deadwing

An act of god?

Gordon

I used to think that if there was a large pair of pipes running up the Liffey for a few hundred meters pumping air into the water it might be able to sustain life other than rats and maybe some plants and fishies might be able to live there.

StupidLikeAFox

Surely it would be a good project for fás people to do? well the less technical end of it anyway.

Doper Than U

Complete cessation of industrial waste being pumped in along the way.

Go to the source of the Liffey, find the tiny spring that will become the big river. You'll also find a pure source of crystal clear water. Now find the f***er's who dump tonnes of toxic chemicals into it, and ask why the hell the government is doing f**k all about it. The Liffey should have tonnes of fish in it, can you imagine how great it would be to hang a fishing rod off O'Connell bridge to catch your supper?

Loobz

Its gone beyond cleaning. Theres no hope for it ever getting better, just going to get worse over time.

modular

Gordon wrote:

I used to think that if there was a large pair of pipes running up the Liffey for a few hundred meters pumping air into the water it might be able to sustain life other than rats and maybe some plants and fishies might be able to live there.

Or use the same pipes to transport all the pollution that would otherwise be going into the river to somewhere else. As in, not let it get into the river at all, just the slime-pipes.

I am MAN

One big tampon

Gordon

Well yes, crap can't be chucked into the river, The Govt should really sort that out. I shudder to think of what's in the Liffey.

Mind you it's a great tourist attraction, a beautiful green hue all year round.

Firewalkwithme

Problem = pollution from city is destroying river.

Solution = stop pollution from entering river by installing proper foul drainage system in city.

New problem = city is crippled while roads are dug up to lay new sewers. Cost is prohibitively expensive.

No viable solution.

Scruff101

A miracle!

Capt'n Midnight

You should have smelt it when the paper plant was still working in Clondalkin, it's a lot cleaner than it used to be.

Hobbes

Liffy can't be that dirty, it grows more bicycles per square meter then any other river in Europe.

Mimikyu

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englander

I dont think it looks that bad when the tide is in.

Although I went by it the other day though when tide was out and it looked a little worse for wear.

Shopping trolleys and lumps of wood and sludge and grime. Very manky.

I was thinking it needs like a big snow plough to push all the sh!te out into sea and then a very large pressure hose.

Get all those gobsh!tes who were arrested on Patrick's Day (750 odd) to clean it with their bare hands ?

monument

They could a least take some of the shopping trolleys etc out of it, while going over the across the Liffey to Heuston on the Luas recently I could hear tourists next to me rumbling in disgust over the site of it.

billy the squid

The liffey was a hell of a lot worse in the past than it is now. before you would get off a train at heuston and look over the side of the "river" and it was so thick with crap that it wasnt even moving. now it seems to be flowing properly at heuston. and it doesnt smell half as bad asw it used to.

BlitzKrieg

is it the liffey or one of the canals that has a sign on one of its bridges listing all the disease you would catch if you went swimming in it. Or has that been taken down?

OY

Hobbes wrote:

Liffy can't be that dirty, it grows more bicycles per square meter then any other river in Europe.

LOL! Nice!

Wasn't there a big deal when a fish was caught there a while back? And not a 3 eyed one! I remember people saying that it was because the river was cleaner than it has been in a long time.

bringitdown

If the dredged it and put in some sort of method of keeping it flowing at a certain rate /at a certain depth tide or no tide would that help.

I always think it is worse at low tide, maybe if we could "mask" it!

deedee lepoopoo

I was thinking the same thing about the Liffey. They apparently caught the first Raleigh Burner of the year in our fair river.

Sherifu

dyno

joejoem

Someone said get the gob****es who were arrested on paddys day to do it - That is a great idea.

Imagine how many dead bodies, bikes, trollies and other ****e would come up out of it!

Surely a dam could be built and then the bottom dredged out, the silt could be used on building new roads.

theCzar

I think the liffey is better than it used to be, but still rank. the problem is, you'll have to find some other way to dispose of the millions of tons of sewage and waste that the liffey washes away for free every year.

Mind you, cleaning it could be self financing if you get your euro back from all the trolleys...

Sarky

Fire. And lots of it.

jazoo

it should be cleaned up and used for public transport , think about it. you could
get into the point depot from say maybe lucan by watertaxi, they or sombody would make a lot of money that could be put back into the river to keep it up to a better standard than it is now.......

joejoem

jazoo wrote:

it should be cleaned up and used for public transport , think about it. you could
get into the point depot from say maybe lucan by watertaxi, they or sombody would make a lot of money that could be put back into the river to keep it up to a better standard than it is now.......

There are a couple of wiers that are in the way, and maybe a tiny bit shallow in places, and boats couldnt go more than 10 miles an hour, and most of the bridges are too low, and it gets too narrow after Island bridge.

But apart from that its a good idea................. :rolleyes:

fiacha

joejoem wrote:

There are a couple of wiers that are in the way, and maybe a tiny bit shallow in places, and boats couldnt go more than 10 miles an hour, and most of the bridges are too low, and it gets too narrow after Island bridge.

But apart from that its a good idea................. :rolleyes:

and the additional pollution caused by the boats, unless u were going to use green energy (the 750 from Paddies day to row them.....)

growler

There is an ambitious plan already underway in along the banks of the equally unlovely Lee to totally clean it up over the next 5 ish years, currently it has 13 million gallons of pure untreated sh1te poured into it each day, when finished the water in the city centre will "meet EU bathing standards".

It can be done !

http://www.corkcorp.ie/maps/maps/drainage.html

tSubh Dearg

It doesn't smell as bad as it used to in the summer. But it is cleaner than the Thames! I was in London last summer and I actually thought I was going to throw up when I caught a whiff of the river.

It'd be nice to see the same kind of clean up job done on the Liffey as has been happening along the canals.

LoneGunM@n

Originally Posted by Hobbes
Liffy can't be that dirty, it grows more bicycles per square meter then any other river in Europe.

Brilliant

I remember years ago that the Liffey was completely cleaned up & it looked great!!

Sure look at the idea of the millenium clock that was dropped into the liffey ... About a week after it was put in, it was illegible because of the build up of sh!te on it!!