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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 09, 2023

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor R. McMahon

To ask the Manager if any remedial action has been undertaken on the disused County Tip Head located at Bohernabreena and to give a report on same with regard to Soil Testing and Drainage Water from the area. And does the Council have any plans to re-plant trees on the site which were removed when the site opened.

REPLY:

The site in question at Bohernabreena and adjacent to the Dodder River was used for the disposal of domestic waste by Dublin County Council in the 1960s and early 1970s.  The Council has had a full environmental risk assessment carried out at this site by a specialist environmental consultant who has recommended that the site should be capped with a layer of soil and that a surface water attenuation pond should also be installed, to control the discharge of surface water from the site to the Dodder.  Arrangements are currently being made to tender for these works which it is hoped will take place later in the year.   There is no information available regarding removal of trees from the site in the past, and the planned works do not include for the planting of replacement trees at this time.