COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, December 14, 2015
QUESTION NO.5
QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the Liffey CFRAMS and how this projects interacts with the current Draft Flood Mapping exercise currently advertised?
REPLY:
The Liffey CFRAMS is part of the Eastern CFRAMS which also includes the Dodder and Boyne and which is a flood mapping exercise being undertaken by the OPW.
The draft flood maps currently on display in South Dublin’s County Hall cover all areas in South Dublin within the catchments of the rivers Liffey and Dodder.
The rivers within the Liffey catchment include the Griffeen, Camac and Poddle and the areas affected are: Hazelhatch, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart, Baldonnel, Clondalkin, Kimmage, Greenhills and Lucan to Chapelizod.
The areas within the Dodder catchment include: Tallaght, Oldbawn, Firhouse, Templeogue and Rathfarnham.
Draft Flood Maps are available to view in South Dublin County Council offices from Friday 20th November, 2015 to Wednesday 23rd December, 2015, both dates inclusive, during normal opening hours. An Information Booklet is available with the draft flood maps.
Observations or comments on the draft flood maps may be sent to the Commissioners of Public Works to arrive no later than 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December, 2015. Questionnaires for completion are available in the local authority offices, or online at https://maps.opw.ie/flood_draftmap_consult/ The questionnaire contains the OPW address for observations or comments
Observations to the draft flood hazard maps must be made in writing by post on the Form to Lodge Objections to the Draft Flood Hazard Maps to arrive no later than 5pm on Monday 21st December 2015 to: Draft Flood Maps Objections, Engineering Services, OPW HQ, Jonathan Swift Street, Trim, Co. Meath.
When the OPW has reviewed the comments and objections to the draft flood maps it will issue final flood maps which shall show areas at risk of flooding.
The OPW will use the final flood maps to produce Options Reports which will contain flood alleviation proposals.
The Options Reports will in turn be subject to public consultation sometime in January or February.
Where the OPW has identified flood alleviation schemes which are cost beneficial then these schemes will be placed on the OPW’s capital programme for implementation.
Some of these schemes such as the Poddle and Ballycullen have already been fast tracked so that construction can commence in the near future.