COMHAIRLE CONTAE FHINE GALL
FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL
BALBRIGGAN/SWORDS AREA COMMITTEE MEETING
(Services B – Strategic & General Matters)
THURSDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2018
ITEM NO. 16
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Question: Councillor B. Dennehy
"To ask the Chief Executive to outline the progress of the case reported
previously of a property adjacent to the Golf Course, Rush where the
Sewage Treatment process is not up to standard?”
Reply:
On foot of pollution reports, the Water Pollution Control Section carried
out a number of investigations at two chalet type houses located to the
rear of a dwelling on Golf Road, Rush. The domestic wastewater
treatment system at the properties consisted of an open wastewater
channel linked to a cesspool. An enforcement notice was served on the
landlord of the property in May 2018 directing him to upgrade the
domestic wastewater treatment system serving the two occupied
dwellings at the location. Since the notice was served, improvement works
were carried out on the system – the cesspool and opened channel have
been filled and a new percolation area installed. However, further
improvement works are required to ensure that no further pollution
occurs in the future.