Uisce Éireann crews making progress in effort to restore water supplies to Leitrim customers
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Over the last number of days, Uisce Éireann has been working to address supply interruptions to customers across County Leitrim following the impact of Storm Éowyn.
County Leitrim’s three water treatment plants lost power during Storm Éowyn and power has since been restored to all of the plants.
While normal supply has returned to the majority of customers across the county, Uisce Éireann crews are continuing to work to restore water supply to customers in parts of South Leitrim.
Some customers in Carrigallen, Newtowngore, Kilyvely and Coraleehan may be experiencing low pressure or water outages. This is due to power outages at pumping stations in these areas as a result of the storm winds.
Uisce Éireann is continuing to work to restore normal operations at water treatment plants in County Leitrim which were impacted by production capacity issues following Storm Éowyn. Local reservoirs are depleted and are currently refilling.
Uisce Éireann’s Kevin Love assured customers that Uisce Éireann is working to return the water supply to normal levels as quickly as possible.
“In the meantime, customers are urged to conserve water where possible in order to protect supply while the outages are resolved. It has been an extremely busy period for our engineers, supervisors, caretakers, and repair crews who have been working hard to restore water for our customers and I want to acknowledge those efforts."
To support impacted customers, alternative water supplies are in place at the following locations:
- Carrigallen Secondary School
- Drumlea National School
- Coraleehan Church
- McNamee’s Garage, Kilyvehly
Customers are reminded to use their own containers when taking water from tankers and to boil water before consumption as a precautionary measure. The supplies will remain in place until supply has returned to all customers.
For simple ways to conserve water, check out the Uisce Éireann conservation calculator (www.water.ie/calculator) which can help people work out how much water they are currently using and how they can conserve even more.
Vulnerable customers who have registered with Uisce Éireann receive direct communications from us for planned and unplanned outages lasting more than four hours.
Uisce Éireann’s customer care team is available to help 24/7 on 1800 278 278 and customers can also contact us on X @IWCare with any queries. For further updates, visit the service and supply section of our website.
Uisce Éireann has also launched a free text service, providing real-time updates for local issues. Customers can sign up with their Eircode and mobile number here.
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Uisce Éireann crews are on the ground across Co Leitrim today working to restore water supplies.
Following Storm Éowyn, power outages at treatment plants and pumping stations continue to impact on supplies across the county with some isolated reported issues on elevated sites in Leitrim at Cloone, Boornacoola and Drumshanbo.
Uisce Éireann has deployed a temporary generator for use at Carrick-on-Shannon Treatment Plant to maintain power supply and a new generator recently installed at a main pump station on the South Leitrim Regional Supply Scheme has been in operation to meet our supply demand balance.
Nationally, approximately 120,000 people across the country have no water this lunchtime following Storm Éowyn. An additional 150,000 people are now being supplied by schemes where generators have been deployed by Uisce Éireann crews. Supplies for a further 275,000 people are at risk in areas where power is yet to be restored.
The impacts are being felt nationwide, with areas without water across the North West and in counties Kerry, Clare, Tipperary, Cavan, Monaghan, Longford and Laois. Updates on local supplies issues will be provided on our website as they become available.
Head of Water Operations at Uisce Éireann Margaret Attridge noted that while positive progress had been made overnight, the number of people now experiencing loss of supply due to power outages may increase as reservoir levels drop.
“This unprecedented storm event has had a severe impact on our water and wastewater network nationwide. Our crews are on the ground in all impacted areas working to restore water service as quickly as possible but given the extent of the damage to the power network, it may take some time before full service is restored everywhere. We ask for the public’s continued patience during this challenging time.
“In locations where water supplies have been impacted for longer periods, we are deploying alternative water supplies. Details of these supplies and their locations will be posted across our website and social media channels as they become available,” she added.
Margaret is also urging customers to conserve water where possible in order to protect supply while the outages are resolved. There are some simple steps people can take to conserve their water, such as avoiding the use of water-intensive appliances during this time.
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