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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor J. Lahart

"To ask the Manager to explain why the sewer laying contract into Kilvere Estate, which commenced last October 2010 and was due to be completed by Christmas 2010, was not completed until months later:- to explain whether the work was contracted out or not - to itemise the cost of the contract/work and to explain why there are still some items, over a year later, left behind after the workmen?"

REPLY:

The diversion of the foul sewer off Butterfield Avenue into the 9B Dodder Valley sewer in Kilvere Estate was started by South Dublin County Council's Direct Labour crew in late October 2010 and was completed in early 2011. However, the base/compound in Kilvere Estate continued to be used while other schemes in the area were started and completed like a similar scheme through Rathfarnham Shopping Centre Carpark and into the park behind it. The manhole covers on the foul sewer on Butterfield Avenue used to pop/lift during heavy rainfall  because of the amount of surface water getting into them and seep sewerage onto the road. This did not happen on the 24th of October 2010 during the deluge after the Direct Labour crew's work in this area. The Direct Labour crew's compound was removed in mid October 2011.