Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Council Prosecuted By EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is prosecuting Clare County Council over allowing water untreated for the bug cryptosporidium into the Ennis water system over a five-month period last year.

In a court summons lodged with the council, the EPA is accusing the council of breaching an EPA directive which required that the council cease the practice of allowing water to bypass the council’s new temporary treatment plant for cryptosporidium from

May 1st to October 21st last year. The case is due to be heard at Ennis District Court on June 25th next.