A Green Party MEP is calling for the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to order an inquiry into water quality in the greater Dublin area. Last night, a boil water notice for 600,000 people in Dublin, Meath and Kildare was re-issued, two weeks after it was first put in place. Irish Water expects the notice to be in place for a number of days after heavy rain affected water quality at the Leixlip Treatment Plant. The utility said that due to heavy rain, turbidity in the source water for the old Leixlip Plant exceeded acceptable levels. Meanwhile, TDs will be told today that several alarms at the Leixlip plant “were not responded to”, leading to the country's largest-ever boil water notice last month.

Source: Irish Examiner November 05, 2019 08:26 UTC