COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, January 09, 2017
QUESTION NO.5
QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the Council’s application for EU Life funding for a long term plan to deal with the serious problem of misconnections of domestic foul water drainage systems resulting in pollution of the surface water drainage system and of rivers and streams as such as the Griffeen?
REPLY:
South Dublin County Council submitted an application for EU LIFE funding in September 2016 for a project which aims to address the issue of domestic misconnections to the surface water drainage system. A short list of the applicants will be announced in March 2017 and successful applicants will be notified in May 2017. The application proposes a joint service approach between South Dublin County Council and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown to perform 10,000 and 7,000 door-to-door inspections respectively of domestic dwellings. The application also proposes the installation of approximately 2 acres of integrated constructed wetland as a second method to deal with domestic misconnections. The application, if successful, will provide significant additional misconnection improvement work.
SDCC have already undertaken work in this area through the taking-in-charge process and 2,656 dwellings have been screened since 2010.