By Dan Walsh
Uisce Éireann has issued a notice regarding a scheduled water outage that may affect customers in certain areas of Wexford Town and nearby regions over the weekend.
Customers in Carricklawn, Hill Street, Wygram, George’s Street, Rowe Street and surrounding areas may experience some disruption to their supply on Sunday, 2 November from 10am until 4pm.
The outage is necessary to facilitate critical water main repairs at the water treatment plant in Newtown and connection works in the area.
As part of these works, a section of aged water main from the 1950’s will be replaced with new pipe work, which will lead to a more resilient water supply for the community.
Uisce Éireann’s Padraig Lyng said; “We understand the inconvenience caused by an interruption to supply. These works are taking place out-of-hours on Sunday in an effort to minimise the impact to the wider community. We would like to thank our customers in advance for their patience and co-operation.”
Following the completion of the works, it can take two to three hours for the normal water supply to return as water refills the network, particularly for those properties on higher ground or at the end of the network.
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