Uisce Éireann è stata denunciata perché la perdita di liquami sulla spiaggia di Co Wicklow è rimasta inosservata per cinque giorni

>he criticised the fact that such an investigation was initiated only after his intervention and has called for the utility to proactively probe and publish findings for all environmental incidents involving wastewater infrastructure.

They do.

It’s all available on the epa website after a few months.

>I have been informed by the EPA that the serious discharge occurred because of a power and communication loss at the Corke Abbey wastewater pumping station, and alarmingly, they have established it went unnoticed by Uisce Éireann from December 26 to December 30.

Sounds about right.

Council operators likely were only visiting the ps every few weeks. And ps probably has no GSM system or remote access, so no way to know without going there.

>It leads me to believe that if I had not contacted the EPA to express my alarm at the fact that sewage was being pumped into the sea,

Small thing, the whole point is that the sewage wasn’t being pumped. It was gravity overflowing.

>It leads me to believe that if I had not contacted the EPA to express my alarm at the fact that sewage was being pumped into the sea, would Uisce Éireann have done anything at all? Would we still have a situation where the north beach in Bray was being contaminated with sewage?”.

Probably not. Operators would have likely go to it after the new year at some point.

I do love the way the council are not mentioned once despite it being their staff on the ground still.