Tipperary customers to be hit with water restrictions for second weekend in a row
Another area of Tipperary is set to face a weekend of water restrictions in an attempt to safeguard the daytime water supply, with some customers to be impacted for the second weekend in a row.
Customers supplied by the Ardfinnan Water Treatment Plant will see overnight restrictions implemented across the weekend to ensure continuous daytime supplies.
Customers in Knockballiniry, Lodge, Poulatar, Croughta, Carrow, Newcastle, Clashganny East, Molughabbey, Garrancasey, Graigue, Bohernagore West, Kilballyboy, Ballybacon, Ladysabbey, and surrounding areas will be impacted by the restrictions, which come into place this Friday (August 22) evening at 10pm.
Supplies will return to normal at 7am on Saturday morning, before restrictions are reimposed from 10pm that night.
As well as this, customers in the Magherareagh, Shortcastle, Ballydrinan, Roosca, Ballybrada, Kilcommon South and the surrounding areas will also be under water restrictions, which will come into force from 10pm on Saturday night, and will continue into Sunday, August 24.
This weekend’s overnight restrictions follow on from last week, when overnight restrictions were imposed on homes and businesses served by the Goatenbridge Water Treatment Plant.
Customers in Poulatar, Ballybacon, Newcastle, Ballyveera, Castlegrace, Shanakill, Magherareagh, Ardfinnan and the surrounding areas were impacted last week as part of the restrictions on the Goatenbridge plant.
Pierce Faherty, Uisce Éireann Water operations manager in Tipperary said that efforts are being made to restore water levels to affected customers.
"We understand the impact of overnight restrictions, but these measures are necessary to ensure continuous daytime supply for homes and businesses.
"Uisce Éireann crews have repaired several leaks on the network recently but reservoir levels remain low. Demand remains high across the network so we’d like to appeal to customers to conserve water where possible,” Mr Faherty added.