Uisce Éireann successfully completes connection of major new pipeline for North County Dublin

Uisce Éireann, in partnership with Fingal County Council, is progressing the final phase of the construction of a major new pipeline between Ballycoolin Reservoir and Swords.

In order to safely connect the new pipeline into the existing water network, a significant planned outage was necessary on Sunday 26 February.

In order to reduce disruption for customers, Uisce Éireann and Fingal County Council, supported by Dublin City Council, reconfigured the water network to maintain supply to as many areas as possible.

To minimise disruption as much as possible to impacted homes and businesses, water services experts worked throughout the night, completing the works on schedule.

Due to the size of the pipes and network, it took approximately 10 hours for the water supply to fully restore to all customers.

The water was initially returned at low pressure to avoid issues such as leaks or bursts on the network before normal supply was restored.

Unfortunately, due to low reservoir levels and high demand, some customers in parts of Skerries experienced temporary low pressure and outages for a number of hours.

Due to a secondary issue in parts of the network, some customers in the East Side of Malahide were without water for longer than planned and Uisce Éireann regrets the inconvenience to impacted customers.

Uisce Éireann say they would like to thank all customers who helped reservoirs and the network to recover by continuing to conserve water where possible.

William McKnight, Uisce Éireann, commented: “We understand that the planned connection works were disruptive to the local community but would like to thank everyone across north County Dublin for their patience during the interruption and conservation efforts on return of supply.

“This is a hugely important project for the people of North County Dublin and for the wider GDA in terms of delivering a sufficient and sustainable water supply to all.

“I would like to thank our specialist water crews in GMC Utilities Group Ltd and Fingal County Council who worked throughout the night to limit the impact on customers and successfully complete this major piece of infrastructure work.”

The project is being carried out by GMC Utilities Group Ltd on behalf of Uisce Éireann, in partnership with Fingal County Council.

For more information, please visit: www.water.ie/ballycoolin-trunkmain