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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TERENURE-RATHFARNHAM AREA COMMITTEE (2)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

QUESTION NO. 26

QUESTION: Councillor C. Keane

"To ask the Manager if a survey has been done in the TRAC area on missing/broken stopcocks? And if so has a timetable being prepared for repair of same? which can be dangerous - particularly for  those with 'high heels'  Was this issue included when Roads department were doing the survey on footpaths?"

REPLY:

The Water Maintenance Section regularly replace broken/missing stopcock covers as part of their scheduled work programme throughout the year.  Numerous calls from the public to report the location of the defective stopcocks are recorded and put on this schedule.  The Area Engineer together with the Local Area Inspector also take note of any stopcocks in need of repair on their daily patrolling of the areas.

The engineer has reported that a list of defective stopcocks compiled by the Roads Department during their foothpath survey has been forwarded by them to the Water Maintenance Section for inclusion on their schedule of works.