CLARE COUNTY Council is seeking the removal of a four-year-old partial boil notice for over 30,000 residents in the Ennis area following confirmation that a new €9 million water treatment plant has been commissioned and that water from the facility meets the legally required quality.
The local authority said it was engaged in consultations with the Health Service Executive with a view to having the notice lifted.
The notice was enforced in May 2005 following the detection of cryptosporidium in the public water supply in Ennis. As well as funding the €9 million facility, the council has spent €2 million to put in place a temporary treatment plant in the interim.
The council confirmed that its new treatment plant at Drumcliffe on the outskirts of Ennis was now fully operational, and that following “exhaustive testing” there is now no evidence of cryptosporidium in the treated water that enters the public supply.