“Raw” sewage is still being pumped into the river Deel, even though the EPA set a deadline of January 1 this year for the installation of a new waste water treatment plant in Askeaton
Local councillor Kevin Sheahan has called on Irish Water to provide a new sewage treatment plant for the town.
“To see raw sewage in the river that runs through my town is a national disgrace,” he said at this month’s meeting of the Rathkeale electoral area.
Cllr Sheahan pointed out that the town was located beside the Aughinish Rusal plant – “one of the biggest rate payers in the county” – and yet money had not been made available for a new sewage treatment plant. He claimed that to ask people in Askeaton to pay property tax and water charges when they had such an inadequate sewage system was “nothing short of daylight robbery”.
Cllr David Naughton, who is based in Ballysteen on the banks of the Shannon estuary, said he had seen a severe deterioration in the quality of the water in the estuary over the past 25 years. Sewage was flowing into the estuary, not just from Askeaton but also from Pallaskenry, Foynes and Shannon airport, he added….
Limerick Leader 07/04/2014 Read the article ‘Concern over untreated sewage flowing into Shannon Estuary‘
