Over 11,000 Tipperary customers facing water disruption
Over 11,000 customers in Tipperary are facing interruptions to their water supply after high levels of rain over the weekend caused turbidity in the water supply.
The high turbidity levels caused an interruption to the Ardfinnan Water Treatment Plant.
Customers in the Goatenbridge, Cahir, Poulatar, Newcastle, Ballybacon, Grange, Ardfinnan, Loughryan, Loughloher, Loughtally, Marlfield, Newchapel, Rathkeevin, Inishlounaght, Nicholastown, Knocklofty, Grauige Group Water Scheme, Castlegrace, Clerihan, Poulmucka, Knockeevan, Derrygrath, Mocklerstown, Ballyhimkin, and surrounding areas are impacted by the interruption.
Uisce Éireann’s Pierce Faherty said that work took place throughout the weekend to keep the plant up and running.
"Flash rainfall over the weekend led to high turbidity levels which interrupted production of the water at the treatment plant. Work over the weekend ensured the plant was operating yesterday evening but further turbidity has impacted on production today, and all customers on the scheme have now been impacted as reservoirs have not had time to refill.
"We are working to restore normal supply as soon as possible and wish to apologise to everyone impacted by this outage,” Mr Faherty said.
Alternative Water Supplies have been made available at Marlfield Village, Clerihan Village. Further alternative water supplies will be made available at Ardfinnan National School and Castle Carpark Cahir, the utility added.