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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

MOTION NO. 2

MOTION: Councillor T. Delaney

That the Manager presents a report to this Committee regarding a number of issues relating to Clondalkin Leisure Centre as follows-

1. Outline a plan to restore the water levels of pond between GAA & soccer fields.

2. Can the pond & river be given a thorough clean up?

3. Tackle the sewage smell which emanates at the Cherrywood end of GAA pitches every Summer.

REPORT:

The pond beside the Camac River between the GAA and soccer pitches near the Clondalkin Leisure Centre has not functioned as such except for flood situations for at least twenty years. The pond when it was functioning properly was controlled by weirs both up and downstream of the pond but these have fallen into disrepair. The existing staff in the Drainage Depot have no recollection of ever cleaning out this pond. To clean out this pond and restore it to its original function would require major funding which is not in the Council's Drainage budget for this year.  As you are aware the Camac River is part of the flood risk assessment of the Eastern CFRAMS (Catchment Flood Risk Assessment & Management Study) Project being undertaken by the OPW and their Consultants, RPS, at the moment and the restoration of this pond may aid flood alleviation. The Drainage Section will draw their attention to this possibility.

There have been sewer chokes in the Cherrywood Estate area and the Drainage Section suspects there are some misconnections of foul sewerage into the surface water system which would give rise to sewerage smells which would be more noticeable to the public during the warm summer months.