bathing areas fail water standards

Cabaal

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0604/bathing.html

Nine bathing areas across the country have failed to comply with the minimum mandatory standards for water quality, according to the latest national assessment.

The Environmental Protection Agency has urged relevant local authorities to take adequate measures to resolve the problem, including providing appropriate wastewater treatment facilities.

The vast majority of the 131 bathing areas are of good quality.
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Seven local authorities achieved the highest standards in all bathing areas; these were: Donegal, Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown, Kerry, Louth and Meath County Councils, and Dublin and Galway City Councils.

However, nine bathing areas failed to comply with the very minimum mandatory standards - usually because of either human or animal waste.

This occurred in Balbriggan, Skerries and Sutton in north Dublin, Dunmore Strand and Dunmore East in Waterford, Clifden in Galway, Duncannon in Wexford, Killalla Ross in Mayo, Youghal in Cork and Lilliput in Westmeath.

However, the EPA added that over 80% of bathing areas met higher guideline standards, which was a 4% increase compared to the previous bathing season.

Not good for the area, I guess Tramore passed (shockingly enough)

Yes Boss

Dunmore East has been like that for years. There is raw effluent in the estuary... Actually, when Martin Cullen was the Minister for the Environment he had a meeting in the park in Dunmore East with all the other EU Environment Ministers - with a backdrop of one of the most polluted estuaries in the E.U. Welcome to Ireland - a banana republic!! :eek:

ex_infantry man

its ireland!!! someone has to have a serious accident before anything is done about it!!!

Finnbar01

This thread reminds me of Galway bay. For decades galway bay prawns were always prized for their size and juiceness. Then they got the sewage treatment plant and the prawns ended up as puny little things.

Thank God I'd never eaten galway prawns!