The wastewater plant treats approximately 40% of the country's sewage
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency is investigating a fault at the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant that caused sewage to be discharged into the Liffey estuary over the weekend. Irish Water has said that the failure of a tank led to the incident and that it is also investigating what happened. The wastewater plant treats approximately 40% of the country’s sewage and Irish Water said today that the fault caused the untreated sludge to be discharged at about 9am on Saturday.
Irish Water said in statement this afternoon that the plant is currently operating above capacity: In order to treat the increasing volumes of wastewater arriving at the plant to the required standard and capacity, Irish Water is investing over €400 million in the staged upgrading of Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant to allow the wastewater of an additional 400,000 population equivalent.
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