A public meeting is being held to discuss the impact of PFAS chemical exposure and noise from Dublin Airport, next Thursday. The St Margarets The Ward FORUM group, is organising the meeting following the news that Fingal County Council have used their regulatory powers to force the Dublin Airport Authority to release all the information…
Multiple pump failures at the Knocksedan waste water pump station led to raw sewage flowing out of it into the nearby Ward River, earlier this week. Locals reported a stream of foul smelling water flowing downhill from Knocksedan into the river. Responding to the reports on Monday council staff attended the scene and the overflow…
A number of barriers to migrating fish are to be dismantled along the Ward river and a ‘fish bypass’ is to be installed at the Arches near Ushers Lake, the Fingal Biodiversity Forum has heard. A study of fish along the Ward found that a number of barriers have badly impacted the ability of salmon…
The Burrow Beach in Sutton and the Front Strand in Balbriggan have both been closed to bathers this week. The popular Burrow Beach in Sutton has been closed to swimmers for two days following the emergency overflow from a nearby pumping station. The closure is due to end tomorrow when water testing results are expected…
An outflow pipe near the Seatown Road was found to be pouring oil into the Broadmeadow Estuary. Fingal County Council staff worked to stop the flow of oil from the pipe, using oil absorbant ‘booms’, and have started an investigation to locate the source. The Special Area of Conservation, where recently an Osprey bird was…
As part of major pipe upgrade, there will be no water available in Swords for much of Sunday Februrary 26th. Water will be shut off from 1am to 11am on the day but it is expected that water distruption will continue for up to 10hours more as the system refills following the outage. Water tankers…
A burst watermain led to huge swathes of Swords and Fingal being without water for days earlier this week. Schools, businesses, and childcare facilities had to close for a number of days because of the outage which was difficult to resolve. Many areas suffered two days without water with a number on higher ground left…
Just as the DO NOT SWIM notice on the iconic Velvet Strand in Portmarnock was lifted last week an extension to the DO NOT SWIM notice in Balbriggan was announced. The notice on the North Strand in Balbriggan, which was first issued on July 25th, has now been extended after tests continued to find elevated…