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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

QUESTION NO. 15

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

"To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the flood alleviation plans for the River Poddle, for an updated timeline of their proposed delivery, and to make a statement on the matter?"

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council is liasing with the OPW and Dublin City in developing proposals to alleviate flooding along the River Poddle.

The OPW produced an Options Report which recommended two options: one option is hard defences, sealing manholes and upstream storage and the other option is hard defences, sealing manholes and flow diversion to the River Dodder.

The next stage is the procurement of an engineering consultant to develop a preferred option to detailed design stage and to prepare contract documents.

South Dublin as the lead authority is developing a design brief and tender documents for the procurement of the consultant. It is planned to have the aforementioned documents completed by the end of October 2014 at which point we can invite tenders from consultants on an existing framework agreement.

The tender period is a minimum of 6 weeks so we should be in a position to appoint a consultant in early 2015 with a view to commencing construction.