Clare County Council's new water treatment plant has failed initial tests resulting in the four-year old precautionary partial boil notice for sections of the greater Ennis population remaining in place for a further three months.The Irish Times reports that the €8 million new plant at Drumcliffe was initially expected to be in place in February allowing the council to lift the precautionary partial boil notice that has been in place since 2005. The boil notice has been in place since an outbreak of cryptosporidium in 2005 and the water supply has been confirmed as a high risk water supply for cryptosporidium.
Now, in a report circulated to councillors, director of infrastructure David Timlin has said the new plant “has some way to go before we can be confident that it will perform consistently without needing the assistance of the old plant”.
