Irish Water confirmed discharge followed a storage tank failure at the weekend
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the circumstances of a discharge of sewage effluent into Dublin Bay from the country’s largest waste water treatment plant located in Ringsend.
“The EPA is investigating this incident and inspectors are carrying out a site inspection to determine the cause of the incident and to monitor the discharge. Our priority is to ensure that Irish Water completes the corrective actions needed to bring the discharge under control and to protect the Lower Liffey Estuary,” she added.
He added: “The unexplained failure led to a massive volume of raw sewage being released into the bay. That bay has been recognised by UNESCO as an internationally important biosphere but we are not providing the protection it deserves. Seeing the lower reaches of the Liffey full of our own excrement is a sickening disgrace.’’
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