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An overflow at Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Liffey last month Dublin City Shots

Irish Water warns about further bad smells in Dublin following delay in repair works at treatment plant

It’s the third such warning issued by the utility in the last two months.

IRISH WATER HAS issued a further warning about potential smells from the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant following a delay in maintenance works at the facility. 

The utility first advised the public about bad odours last week, when it announced that works to replace carbon odour control media at the plant would take around five days.

Those works are being carried out to reduce the risk of smells from the plant, but Irish Water has issued a further odour notice today and said the works will now be completed on 30 August.

In a statement, the utility apologised for any smells that occurred while the works were carried out, saying:

These works are essential maintenance works on one of the odour control units at the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant, and involve replacing carbon odour control media to ensure any odours generated in that area of the plant are effectively treated.
All other odour conrol units are operating effectively at present. There may be intermittent odours while these works are carried out.

It is the third such notice that Irish Water has issued in the last two months.

In July, the utility advised of a risk of smells as cleaning works at the plant were carried out to deal with odour issues and to reduce the risk of odours from other debris over the summer.

The plant has also been the subject of scrutiny following a number of storm water overflows and discharges.

A number of brown plumes have been spotted in the Liffey estuary near the plant this year, while earlier this year, TheJournal.ie also revealed how billions of litres of untreated wastewater have overflowed from the plant since 2015.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:05 PM

    In the real world, there’s no such thing as a ‘tough group’ or a ‘group of death’…. like these are qualifiers to see who progresses to the ‘competition’ stage….. if you can’t hold your own at the qualifying stage there’s zero point going any further

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:29 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Strange logic from a strange person. This is demonstrably a tough group. We have been drawn with the 3rd, 4th and 5th ranked teams in the world in European Championship qualifying group. And if had drawn the same three teams in the World Cup finals, it would still be a tough group. Correct though, it’s not the group of death from our perspective, but probably is for the other three teams.

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:35 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: hi liz/ brendan/ honybadger…using the ‘Kevin ker’ account on a Tuesday????— sneaky!!!

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:40 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: Care to address the actual point?

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:42 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: like most on here…I never engage with any of your accounts

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    Mar 5th 2024, 7:23 PM

    Is there a group of life?

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    Mar 5th 2024, 6:24 PM

    The Ireland B team.

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    Mar 6th 2024, 7:34 AM

    Oh thank God, when I first saw this headline I thought it was the men’s team… Phew what a relief

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