Chapter 9
Environmental Infrastructure
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
improve Ireland’s water environment. The Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) is a local authority shared service working with the 31 local authorities, relevant State agencies, stakeholders and communities, to help meet the requirements of the WFD to have a good standard at all natural waters by 2027. The Geological Survey of Ireland’s (GSI) National Aquifer, Vulner ability and Recharge maps provide information on groundwater quality, quantity and distribution and are a useful resource in terms of monitoring groundwater.
Submission welcomes mention of its Groundwater maps within Section 9.9 ‘Water Quality’ of the draft plan and wishes to ensure that use of its data or maps is attributed correctly to ‘Geological Survey Ireland’. 92
This has been attributed. See also Part 3, Appendices in relation to this submission. Recommendation: No change.
Each river needs to be assigned a status, with pollution events monitored and polluters prosecuted. 46
Paragraph 9.9 and Objective 9.7 supports the River Basin Management Plan for Ireland and its successor including the protection of water and improvement of water status. Cork City Council will support relevant bodies such as Irish Water to achieve this. This issue has been sufficiently addressed within the scope of the Draft Plan. Recommendation: No change.
Surface Water & Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
Submits that all hard-surface parking for cars must be permeable to allow rainwater to go straight into the ground rather than be directed into the drainage system.
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The negative effects of the disposal of surface water runoff from impermeable surfaces such as carparks and need for alternative methods of disposal such as SUDS is recognised and sufficiently addressed in Section 9.8 and Objective 9.4 of the Draft Plan.
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