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The Southside Stink

  • 09-09-2007 6:06pm
    #1
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭


    Anyone living in the Blacrock to Dun Laoghaire coastal area or gone past it?

    This stink has been going on for weeks, it's absolutely revolting. Council says that it's not sewage, but algae overgrowth from the bad weather we've had during the summer.

    Anyone know any more?


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  • #2
    Rum&Coke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Rum&Coke


    This is the most horrible stench in Dublin! Between Salthill and Sandymount its all stink! I allways thought it was the sea. Now im not the kind of person that complans alot but the smell does actually make you gawk.


  • #3
    Mezcita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Mezcita


    Thats the smell of success. Embrace it.


  • #4
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    or...


    the bird Santuary


  • #5
    Pepe LeFrits
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    Not noticed anything around Sandymount I must say


  • #6
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,590 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    apparently it is sewage and algae related and it is the reason the blue flag at seapoint is gone. have a link somewhere...

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/brown-sludge-in-sea-causes-alarm-1074493.html

    The times said today that DLRC have confirmed 'an overflow' at the west pier sewage pumping station caused by heavy rain.


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  • #7
    Burga Galti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Burga Galti


    Yea, it absolutely awful. Drove past there the other day with my girlfriend. Glad I'm not living there that's for sure.


  • #8
    Attol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Attol


    I had to walk through Blackrock village with one hell of a hangover. Oh god it was so horrible.


  • #9
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Attol wrote:
    I had to walk through Blackrock village with one hell of a hangover. Oh god it was so horrible.

    Blackrock, the hangover or the smell :D


  • #10
    Pepe LeFrits
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    I notice it when I go to the gym now. It is pretty rancid alright.


  • #11
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    i live in Ringsend behind the new slurry pit ( aka water filtration unit ) behind the twin red/white e.s.b towers on the Sandymount strand ) ... not only is it bad enough that its taken out at Ringsend and pumped back in a at Sutton but it leaks a bad smell atleast twice a week , hence they blackrock gets the it when the wind blows :)


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  • #12
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    The smell is God awful all right.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Still there, not the may wets on the DART in the mornin when ur on a dodgy mornin stomach!!


  • #14
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Maybe it's algae, but strangely it smells just like poo.

    And Sandymount Strand is ankle-deep in revolting-looking stuff at low tide.

    Seems to me that the new superhero sewage system has failed already.


  • #15
    Vorophobe
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Vorophobe


    Waste plant discharge is confirmed by council

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/waste-plant-discharge-is-confirmed-by-council-1081429.html


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