[Leading Cork to take its place as a World Class City] __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Water Services The bulk of the work carried out by the Water Services Section of Cork City Council is on behalf of Irish Water providing public water & wastewater services. Water Services also includes Surface Water Drainage, the monitoring of Private Water and Wastewater services which is the responsibility of the Local Authority. The City Council continued to provide the essential Water, Wastewater and Surface Water Drainage services throughout the strictest lockdown periods of the Covid-19 pandemic. Staff implemented the precautionary measures and the changes in work practices to ensure the services were delivered. Water Production During 2021, we produced an average of 30,279,000 litres of water every day at the Lee Road Waterworks. This was a reduction of 7,171,000 litres/day on the 2020 production to facilitate the construction of the new Water Treatment Plant and the replacement of trunk water mains. Alternative water was secured from the Inniscarra Water Treatment Plant and delivered via the recently installed 600mm trunk water main from Tivoli to the City centre. Cork City Council is required to test the quality of the water delivered to our customers across the city’s water network. Traditionally, this was done by calling to random houses and taking a sample from the kitchen tap. Due to Covid restrictions, this was no longer an option, so an alternative had to be developed. Water Services staff developed an attachment that could be connected to the boundary box outside a customer’s property to allow a sample to be taken without having to enter the property or disturb the customer in any way and was a quicker and safer for all involved. Samples can be taken on a regular basis allowing for analysis of trend. This commenced in 2020 and was further extended in 2021 allowing 135 samples across the network.
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