Residents and businesses of Gweedore are to have meetings with Irish Water in the coming weeks to arrange the new local sewerage system.
Progress has been made in developing the plan for the provision of a sewerage scheme to ensure Gweedore is compliant with the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.
Over 40 homes have signed up to the demonstration project and initial surveys of these homes have been completed.
Irish Water has said it will be engaging again on a one to one basis with householders over the next number of weeks to finalise layouts for systems. Householders will be notified in advance of these individual meetings being arranged.
The new scheme is to ensure Gweedore has a public wastewater system that all properties in the area served by the scheme can connect to and will support future residential and business growth in the area.
Colm Boyd, Irish Water, explained: “In an area such as Gweedore where ground conditions make it difficult to install a private septic tank or sewerage system, this approach allows all properties and sites in the area to be connected to the scheme.
“Our intention is to develop two work packages, one work package for the main collection system, which we anticipate commencing in the next few weeks and a second work package for the individual property connections which will commence next year.
2We will shortly be issuing tender documents to the market to procure the pump assemblies, (which includes the pumps, tanks, control systems and boundary boxes for each property).
Mr Boyd added: “It is envisaged that by Christmas we should have selected a preferred supplier and will sign a contract with them after that. Allowing for shipping and manufacture we should have units on site in Gweedore in Spring 2019.”
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