DUBLIN, Ireland – Utility Irish Water has started work on an €80 million upgrade to the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant, the largest in Ireland.
This upgrade will take approximately two years to construct and will accommodate the current demand, support planned housing and economic growth in the Dublin Region and will improve the quality of the treated wastewater discharged to the Liffey estuary.
This capacity upgrade is one part of an overall investment of €400 million by Irish Water in the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Project.
Subject to planning permission, the overall upgrade project will enable full treatment of wastewater for the equivalent of 2.4 million people, meeting all foreseeable development needs to at least 2025.
Currently the plant services over 40 percent of the national population and is treating wastewater for the equivalent of 1.9 million people.
AGS technology was identified by Irish Water as ideally suited to deployment at Ringsend. In December 2017, Irish Water awarded the Capacity Upgrade Contract to Veolia Water Ireland Ltd & PJ Hegarty & Sons DC Joint Venture for the construction of this phase of the upgrade.
The utility is also seeking permission shortly for the Greater Dublin Drainage Scheme, with a new wastewater treatment plant in Clonshaugh, which will be needed from 2025 to enable the northern & north western environs of the city to continue to grow into the future.
Lord Mayor of Dublin City, Mícheál MacDonnch, said: “With the CSO (Central Statistics Office) predicting the population of the Greater Dublin Area to grow by 1 per cent per year over the next ten to fifteen years, it is vital our infrastructure keeps up with that growth. This investment will enable future housing and commercial development and help ensure Dublin is able to sustain continued growth.”
Jerry Grant, managing director of Irish Water, added: “We will be submitting a planning application to An Bord Pleanála in the Spring of this year to progress the further upgrade to the plant to support the wastewater needs of a population equivalent of 2.4 million, in the most cost effective, environmentally sensitive and timely manner.”
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