Stephen Burke
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first heard Aug 2026
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Yeah, we're right in the middle of it at the moment, but I'm delighted to say that everything is currently going according to plan.
We commenced the works yesterday afternoon by reducing production at our biggest treatment plant in the country, Ballymore Eustace.
Explain how much water that delivers and to whom.
So at the moment, Ballymore Eustace is producing about 350 million litres per day and that supplies roughly half the water to the greater Dublin area, Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow.
To put that in perspective, that would be slightly less than Croke Park if it was filled with water.
My goodness.
Every day.
That's how much that plant is.
So we still have treatment, it's very much operational at our other treatment plants at Leekslip, Ballyboden, Vartree, and we're still able to get some water out of Ballymore Eustice.
But ultimately, the most critical pipeline in the country is the one we're working on right now.
It carries about 220 million litres a day.
So while that pipe is off, we shut it off at about nine o'clock last night.
So for every 24 hours that that pipe is off, our treated water storage across the region will drop by about 220 million litres.
Now, is water still being produced and stored?
Absolutely, yeah.
We are still producing water, but at the moment the amount of water we're producing is significantly less than the daily demand for the greater Dublin area because we have had to reduce production for these works.
So the pipe itself is about 50 years old.
It's made of concrete.
It's approaching its end of life.
We've identified a number of leaks on the pipe.
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