Swords Water Cutoff
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Water Services Department plans to carry out works to repair a leak on a large diameter trunk water main on Tuesday 26th June in lands off the Forest Road, Swords.
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Showing posts with label water shortage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water shortage. Show all posts
Water Shortage For Portersgate
Friday, June 1, 2012
Clonsilla Area:
The water has been turned off in the Portersgate area of Clonsilla to
carry out repairs to a burst in the area. It is expected that the water supply
will be restored by 2pm.
Kinsealy
Area: Water is off to Drynam Ave and Russell Terrace to carry
out essential maintenance to a fire hydrant. It is expected water
will be back on by 2.30pm.
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Reservoirs Serving Balbriggan and Malahide/Portmarnock Dangerously Low
Monday, May 28, 2012
Urgent Notice
Water levels at both
reservoirs are dangerously low and
there is a risk of the reservoirs running dry if consumption continues at the
current rate.
Consumers in the Balbriggan and Malahide/Portmarnock areas are
urgently requested to use water as sparingly as possible for the next 24 hours
or until repair work is completed on the 30” watermain at Forest Road, Swords.
It would be a great help if all consumers were to use water sparingly. Further
updates will be provided as relevant information comes to hand.
Update on Water Supply Situation in Fingal and Dublin
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Important Notice - Water Restrictions
Following improvements in the stored capacity of water in reservoirs, Fingal County Council advises that there will be no further planned shutdowns to the water supply. However, it is intended to reduce water pressure over the next three nights and this will be done on an Area basis as before (see list hereunder). Consumers should be aware that depending on the demand for water, some areas may experience a temporary loss of supply, however, once pressure returns to normal on the following morning the water supply will be restored to all areas.
Reduced Water Pressure
Tuesday 25th January: 7pm to 7am - Area 2
Malahide, Portmarnock, Balbriggan, Bremore, Balrothery, Clonsilla(part), Porterstown, Clonee, Barnhill, Westmanstown, Lucan, Littlepace, Castaheany, Huntstown(part), Hansfield, Ongar, Mulhuddart, Blanchardstown and Kinsealy(part).
Wednesday 26th January: 7pm to 7am - Area 3
Swords, Cloghran, Baskin, Mulhuddart, Castleknock, Farmleigh, Blanchardstown, Carpenterstown, Huntstown(part), Hartstown, Blakestown, Clonsilla(part), Coolmine and Phoenix Park Racecourse
Thursday 27th January: 7pm to 7am - Area 1
Swords, Kinsealy(part), Skerries, Lusk, Rush, Loughshinny, Bayside, Sutton, and Baldoyle.
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Water supplies running low
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
From The Water Services Dept. Fingal County Council
This is to advise that it is proving necessary to step up from the throttling back of water supplies, undertaken by all four Dublin local authorities in recent days since the onset of very cold weather conditions, to conserve reservoir levels.
The escalation is proving necessary to prevent a serious depletion of water reserves and to control supply by matching use with the regional capacity to supply treated water.
The depletion that happened in January last when householders running water taps, combined with serious mains fractures, resulted in a prolonged period before normal water levels in reservoirs could be restored. While there have been relatively few water mains bursts so far this cold season, there is strong evidence from the pattern of use that householders have reverted to running taps to "prevent water pipes bursting".
From tomorrow, Tuesday 07th December each local authority will cut off supply in one of four designated areas in each authority area from 7pm to 7am next morning.
This cut-off will be for each area in turn so that, in effect, each area will only be affected every 4th day.
Every household has sufficient supply for up to 12 hours minimum from roof-tanks installed according to water byelaws. So the minimum of inconvenience should be experienced if people use water supplies responsibly and plan for the non-supply period.
The Council will be emphasising the normal "conserve water" advice notices on their website, but are reluctant to over-emphasise the need to conserve water as this, regrettably, had the opposite effect when used in the same context in January. So far there has been relatively few watermain bursts. A sudden thaw may bring an onset of these bursts and resultant pressure on our staff to repair them.
Transportation staff, supplemented by staff from the Parks and Environment divisions endeavour to keep roads, rail stations and transport nodes, hospital access and school crossings accessible. The level of work involved here has been considerable, as will the water cut-offs for Water Services staff who will attend before and after the cut-off and resumption of supply.
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This is to advise that it is proving necessary to step up from the throttling back of water supplies, undertaken by all four Dublin local authorities in recent days since the onset of very cold weather conditions, to conserve reservoir levels.
The escalation is proving necessary to prevent a serious depletion of water reserves and to control supply by matching use with the regional capacity to supply treated water.
The depletion that happened in January last when householders running water taps, combined with serious mains fractures, resulted in a prolonged period before normal water levels in reservoirs could be restored. While there have been relatively few water mains bursts so far this cold season, there is strong evidence from the pattern of use that householders have reverted to running taps to "prevent water pipes bursting".
From tomorrow, Tuesday 07th December each local authority will cut off supply in one of four designated areas in each authority area from 7pm to 7am next morning.
This cut-off will be for each area in turn so that, in effect, each area will only be affected every 4th day.
Every household has sufficient supply for up to 12 hours minimum from roof-tanks installed according to water byelaws. So the minimum of inconvenience should be experienced if people use water supplies responsibly and plan for the non-supply period.
The Council will be emphasising the normal "conserve water" advice notices on their website, but are reluctant to over-emphasise the need to conserve water as this, regrettably, had the opposite effect when used in the same context in January. So far there has been relatively few watermain bursts. A sudden thaw may bring an onset of these bursts and resultant pressure on our staff to repair them.
Transportation staff, supplemented by staff from the Parks and Environment divisions endeavour to keep roads, rail stations and transport nodes, hospital access and school crossings accessible. The level of work involved here has been considerable, as will the water cut-offs for Water Services staff who will attend before and after the cut-off and resumption of supply.
Garristown Water Supply Update - Thursday 27th MAY: 10am
Friday, May 28, 2010
I recieved the following update at 4.30pm on the water supply problem in the North of the County.
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Fingal County Council sending out water tankers to provide emergency water supplies
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Reservoirs are filling up but not fast enough for D 15 areas see new message from Water Services below
EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY UPDATE 9am Saturday 16th January
Water pressure will be reduced in all areas in the coming days, from 10pm each night until 6am the following morning to allow reservoirs to fill.
Tankers and standpipes will provide emergency water supplies today from 10am to 4pm or while demand exists at the following locations:
Lanesborough Estate, Dublin 11 - Tanker
Garristown Inn - Standpipe
Howth Summit - TankerUnexpected local problems with bursts, airlocks or pumps may mean that some areas do not get a water supply back at the time estimated here.
Garristown/Oldtown area - Garristown Village should have water. Wider area still affected by a burst watermain
Lanesborough/Melville - This area gets water from Dublin City where water levels are still critical. The City will provide an intermittent supply to this area from Friday 15th onwards. All available supply should be conserved. A tanker will be provided in this area as long as there is disruption to this supply.
High areas of Howth - Reservoirs filling slowly in this area. Howth summit should have water by today.
Continuing water conservation in the coming days is the key to allowing our reservoirs to refill and to restore a water supply across Fingal. The Council will have to continue to restrict water supply at night throughout the weekend and into next week.
Regular updates will be posted to our Website, Aertel P624 and Twitter as soon as they are available.
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