First published at 20:54 UTC on September 2nd, 2019.
EPA inspectors visited Ringsend Sewage plant in July after concerns were raised after what was alleged to be sewage spotted flowing out of the treatment plant.
A spokesman told Dublin live: "The plant has a capacity to treat waste water from a…
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EPA inspectors visited Ringsend Sewage plant in July after concerns were raised after what was alleged to be sewage spotted flowing out of the treatment plant.
A spokesman told Dublin live: "The plant has a capacity to treat waste water from a population equivalent of 1.64 million. The load entering the plant is from a population equivalent of approximately 2.3 million."
“The EPA has repeatedly highlighted that Ringsend treatment plant is failing to meet national and European Union treatment standards.
"It is failing to meet these standards and failing to comply with the requirements of its waste water discharge licence because the plant is not big enough to adequately treat all of the waste water that it receives."
They added: “Waste water discharged back into the environment from this overloaded plant is breaching, and will continue to breach, the quality standards until upgrade works are complete.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/ringsend-sewage-plant-epa-dublin-16519027
A spokesman for Irish Water said: "Currently the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant treats approximately 40% of the country’s wastewater load. In order to treat the increasing volumes of wastewater arriving at the plant to the required standard Irish Water is investing over €400 million in the staged upgrading of Ringsend."
In July, the journal reported that billions of litres of untreated waste water have overflowed from the plant into the Liffey estuary.
The overflows include the discharge of more than 320 million litres of wastewater into Dublin Bay on seven occasions in 2019 alone, with dozens more overflows in previous years.
https://www.thejournal.ie/ringsend-waste-water-plant-overflows-4718791-Jul2019/
Source: https://twitter.com/EimearMcCormack/status/1168198131525345280?s=19
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