OUR WATER SUPPLYHAS BEEN CHANGED TO LEIXLIP

emo72

from ballymore eustace. did anyone hear about this? this is a major change and could affect us badly switching from a soft water to hard water. anyone notice any difference with the water?

emo72

emo72 wrote: »

from ballymore eustace. did anyone hear about this? this is a major change and could affect us badly switching from a soft water to hard water. anyone notice any difference with the water?

Noticed some scale in my kettle alright. The pressure has improved lately. I had a thread on it.

josh59

William Lavelle the local councilor put a post up on his Facebook page about this during the week.

It explains a lot - we thought our dishwasher was on the blink - everything was coming out smudged in a chalk like coating - we started using rinse aid again - even though the tablets we use say that they are all in one and the problem got sorted.

You can see a scum on your cup of tea if you leave it for a few minutes so I bought one of those steel wool balls for the kettle and that seems to have solved the problem.

There were women on complaining on the FB page saying that they noticed their hair was all dull - one woman had bought 2 different types of shampoo thinking that was the problem.

If you remember the Ballymore Eustace reservoir was the one where they had the water treatment problems last year which necessitated the water being cut off at night for a couple of weeks to conserve supply. The issue was caused by the heavy rain at the time and the treatment plant was unable to cope with what was needed to treat the water as a result.

Lets hope Irish Water can get their act together to ensure such problems don't arise in the future.

stoneill

I feckin knew it!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057112301

emo72

stoneill wrote: »

I feckin knew it!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057112301

i saw your thread stoneill, but i thought it best to start a new one, to highlight the issue. bord uisce or whatever they call themselves seem to be able to change supply without consulting us. id rather them leave us with the service we've had for years. id love to have the exact facts.

irishmotorist

I raised this with a bunch of elected representatives and got the following reply from Frances Fitzgerald and similar from some others.

I have noticed an improvement in recent days though.

My colleague, Cllr William Lavelle, last week tabled an emergency motion on this at the South Dublin County Council meeting. There is production difficulties in Roundwood which has affected supply and distribution across the region. Lucan usually gets it's supply from Ballymore Eustace but because of the pressures placed on the system as a result of Roundwood, this has switched to Leixlip which has harder water.

This isn't a result of water metering and the Council are trying to blend both waters for the time being to try and cut down on the issues residents have been facing as a result of the harder water. I understand that the water is safe to drink though.

emo72

i have a noticed a build up of white stuff on my dishwasher. limescale? never had it before.

Snake Plisken

Is this all of Lucan lads?

Heroditas

Ahaa! I was wondering if there was something wrong with the shampoo and why I wasn't getting such a good lather recently.
Better stock up on Calgon and stuff like that.

blueturnip

Heroditas wrote: »

Ahaa! I was wondering if there was something wrong with the shampoo and why I wasn't getting such a good lather recently.
Better stock up on Calgon and stuff like that.

Ohhh!! I thought it was my shampoo! I guess there is not much I can do for the shower!

alias no.9

Had considered fitting a combi-boiler last year when getting the gas boiler replaced, glad I didn't because hard water can play havoc with them.