Flooding of Clare Roads

spender.j

Glad to report that even though the flood is still in evidence at Lough Cutra gatehouse, the Tulla rd is not blocked, access from Killanena GAA field. Good luck all...

redeight

spender.j wrote: »

Glad to report that even though the flood is still in evidence at Lough Cutra gatehouse, the Tulla rd is not blocked, access from Killanena GAA field. Good luck all...

Heres a photo of the Lough Cutra gatehouse flood from around 4 pm today.
It was passable but I wouldnt take my car through there personaly.
It was fine in a jeep though.
That was the worst flood on the road down to Feakle.
The Feakle Scarriff rd was not bad either - no flood at Cooleenbridge
and a small flood nearer towards Feakle.

Keano

I was just down at the bridge at Sixmilebridge and the pressure of the water is very severe and looks like it is not calming down any time soon

celliman

The main water pipe for shannon town and surrounding area is fixed to this bridge.If the bridge goes thats the water supply cut off.Fill the bath just in case.

magicwand

bridge just went...

katkin

What do you mean?

Run_to_da_hills

magicwand wrote: »

bridge just went...

What?? all six miles of it ? :eek:

MarkR

celliman wrote: »

The main water pipe for shannon town and surrounding area is fixed to this bridge.If the bridge goes thats the water supply cut off.Fill the bath just in case.

Oops.

Clareman

The latest reason behind the flooding in Ennis is due to the new bridge at the Rowan Tree allowing the water into Abbey Street and a new wall near the by pass failing and allowing the water onto the Gort Road

MarkR

Which bridge is it exactly? I've driven through sixmilebridge a few times, but I'm not that familiar with it.

Is it the one crossing the small stream in the centre of town? Or that humpback one?

Keano

MarkR wrote: »

Which bridge is it exactly? I've driven through sixmilebridge a few times, but I'm not that familiar with it.

Is it the one crossing the small stream in the centre of town? Or that humpback one?

Its the bridge in the centre of the town. Its a river that runs under it :P

Keano

magicwand wrote: »

bridge just went...

Any sources to back that up??

Run_to_da_hills

Clareman wrote: »

The latest reason behind the flooding in Ennis is due to the new bridge at the Rowan Tree allowing the water into Abbey Street and a new wall near the by pass failing and allowing the water onto the Gort Road

There is a lot of anger over this and it would not surprise me if legal action was taken out against the town council. The new wall along Wood quay and the Parnell St Car park effectively funneled the water to areas in town that never had a history of flooding. On top of this bad planning in the outscirts fueled by back handers and corporate greed added to this whole problem.

The army built up sand bags in the arch opposite the Queens which flooded the properties inside this area. All i can say is thank God planning was refused on the Post Office field ten years ago.

celliman

the sixmilebridge bridge has reopened,traffic moving ok

Keano

celliman wrote: »

the sixmilebridge bridge has reopened,traffic moving ok

Just to pedestrians

From Clare FM

In Sixmilebridge the Council continues to monitor the safety of the village's historic bridge which was closed to cars and pedestrians last evening.

However the bridge reopened to pedestrians this morning.

Clare County Council says the bridge has been damaged by the rising water levels in the River Garney after days of heavy flooding.

palaver

apparantly for pedestrians only:

As the flooding crisis continues in all parts of Clare, there's a warning that further problems are expected in the coming days.

In Sixmilebridge the Council continues to monitor the safety of the village's historic bridge which was closed to cars and pedestrians last evening.

However the bridge reopened to pedestrians this morning.

Clare County Council says the bridge has been damaged by the rising water levels in the River Garney after days of heavy flooding.

Engineers have been assessing the situation over the past few days.

http://www.clare.fm/news/sixmilebridge-bridge-re-opens-pedestrians

Clare CoCo flood information:
http://www.clarecoco.ie/news/Latest_roads_aff_flooding.html

Some interesting aerial pics:
http://www.clare.fm/flood

PaddyThai

Found this on Youtube.
Flooding around Quin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYaukyPV3XY