Stephen Burke

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The Pat Kenny Show · Uisce Éireann Ask For Your Help · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

And obviously, we're really investing heavily in leakage reduction.

So we need to get those leaks fixed.

But equally, we identified a number of sections where the pipe is actually at risk of burst.

Yeah.

Look, we would have stringent measures in place to assess the performance of our pipes in terms of leakage and condition, water quality, things like that.

Well, we've carried out similar repairs in previous years, albeit never this ambitious.

Last year, our savings were in the region of over 1 million litres per day.

This year, we expect to save somewhere between 2 and 3 million litres per day.

So you don't know definitively until you've finished the works and everything is calmed down.

So it's a very complex, very specialised engineering challenge.

We have 15 leak repairs.

Those repairs are being done internally.

So right now, this minute, we have six separate crews at six separate locations inside the pipe right now repairing the leaks internally.

Typically, the leaks are all at joints in the pipe internally.

So that is a very specialist measure.

Separately, the two sections where we've identified that the pipe is at risk of burst, we've actually removed sections of pipe to about the size of a railway carriage.

And those sections of existing pipe are out now and we were just starting to install them.

External diameter is over two metres in diameter.

Internally, it's about 1.6 metres.

So it's a very big pipe.

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