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 will be provided at two locations in Swords for the day: St Finian’s Church in Rivervalley and St Colmcille’s GAA Club on the Glen Ellen Rd.
Uisce Éireann (the new name for Irish Water) has advised the following:
Customers advised of significant outage on Sunday 26 February
In order to safely facilitate the new connection, it will be necessary for the water supply to be switched off for a period of time until the connection works are completed. To minimise disruption as much as possible to homes and businesses, the outage will commence in the early morning of Sunday 26 February from 1am until approximately 11am. It is planned that supply will begin to return after this time. However, due to the size of the pipes and network it could take up to 10 hours for normal supply to return to all customers as water refills the network, especially for those on higher ground or at the end of the network. The outage will impact customers in the following areas: Swords, Santry, Malahide, Portmarnock, Kinsealy, Ballyboughal, Lissenhall, Donabate, Portrane, Turvey, Loughshinny, Palmerstown (Fingal), Rush, Lusk, nearby M1 service stations and surrounding areas.
As per best practice, most homes and businesses will have on-site water storage to provide a backup source of water for sanitation purposes. Uisce Éireann advises customers to familiarise themselves with their storage capacity.
Alternative water supply locations
To support customers during the outage, Uisce Éireann and Fingal County Council will provide an alternative water supply at the following locations until supplies have returned to normal: Tesco Shopping Centre in Rush; Rathmore Park Car Park in Lusk; Seaview Park Car Park in Portrane; Donabate / Portrane Community Centre Car Park; St. Finian’s Catholic Church in Swords South; St. Colmcille’s GAA Club in Swords North; Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in Malahide; and Portmarnock Sports and Leisure Club. Customers are reminded to use their own containers when taking water from the tanker and to boil water before consumption as a precautionary measure as per HSE advice.
