What Would it Take to Clean-up the Liffey?

fiacha · 22-03-2005 06:07PM

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 · 22-03-2005 07:04PM

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 · 22-03-2005 07:31PM

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 · 23-03-2005 03:27PM

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!!

What Would it Take to Clean-up the Liffey?

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