By Dan Walsh
Uisce Éireann has successfully completed emergency repairs on a trunk water main supplying Newtown Water Treatment Plant at Wexford.
While repairs are now complete, the prolonged outage has resulted in reservoir levels at Newtown and Coolcots running low. The reservoirs and water network are currently refilling. However, due to the loss of treated water in storage, it may take until late this evening for water supplies to return to all areas, especially for those on higher ground or at the end of the network.
Once the burst was identified, water service crews were immediately dispatched and worked for hours repairing and refilling the trunk water main. Every measure was taken to reduce the impact to homes and businesses in Coolcots, Barntown Clonard, Townparks, Whitemill, Whiterock, Clonard, Mulgannon, Carricklawn and surrounding areas of Wexford town and to restore the water supply as quickly as possible.
Jim Fitzgerald, Regional Operational Manager at Uisce Éireann said; “We would like to thank the affected communities for their patience as the water supply returns to the network. To help Newtown and Coolcots Reservoirs to refill as quickly as possible, we are appealing to customers to continue to conserve water until the network recovers.”
Following this type of work, occasionally issues such as cloudy water (air bubbles), discolouration or internal airlocks may arise. For advice on how to resolve these issues please visit www.water.ie/help/supply/after-an-outage/.
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