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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 14, 2009

QUESTION NO. 19

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Manager to identify the areas of this county that are subject to serious flooding and to state in the reply what contingency plans this Council have to prevent such flooding and to deal with it when it happens?

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council area has had relatively little flooding as a result of the recent bad weather.  There was some minor flooding on Tubber Lane, Lucan, in the Kishogue/Lynch’s Lane area and also in the Tallaght area near Raheen Estate, but there was no flooding of property from our major rivers, the Liffey and Dodder, or from their main tributaries, the Tallaght, The Whitechurch, the Owendoher, the Camac, The Griffeen etc.  A study of flood risks on the Dodder and it’s main tributaries has been carried out by the OPW, their consultants and the three local authorities along its length, and preliminary flood maps for 10, 100 and 1,000 year storms have been produced showing that very few properties in the South Dublin County Council area are at risk from flooding.  Public information days on this study will be held soon.

A similar CFRAMS (Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Study) for the Liffey and it’s main tributaries will be funded by the OPW.  The Liffey’s main tributaries in the South Dublin County Council area will be the Poddle, the Camac and the Griffeen.  10, 100 and 1,000 year storm risk maps will also be provided for the LIffey and it’s main tributaries from this study.

Meanwhile, South Dublin County Council  crews are on standby to deal with any flooding incidents that may arise and the Council will also call on our sister Council's (Dublin City Council, Kildare County Council, Fingal County Council and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council) for additional staff if the need arises under the Major Emergency Plan.