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Updated 14.08
LIMERICK CITY AND County Council (LCCC) has issued a weather alert with more flooding in the Shannon’s catchment area deemed inevitable.
Met Éireann has said that rainfall amounts between tomorrow and Wednesday will be in the 30-60mm range for many areas with “further flooding inevitable”.
The Council says water levels along the Lower River Shannon at Castleconnell, Montpelier, Mountshannon Road (Lisnagry) and in the Limerick City area have risen approximately 100mm during the past 48 hours.
Clare County Council has similarly said that the county is braced for further flooding, and that standard procedures are in place should such flooding transpire.
“Council staff are continuing pumping operations at Castleconnell and Montpelier,” said Vincent Murray, senior engineer with LCCC.
The Council remains on alert to ensure that the necessary responses can be immediately activated in the event of flooding during the coming days as approximately two inches of rainfall is forecast between Monday and Wednesday.
Despite the warning put in place by LCCC water levels in the region remain 275mm lower than they were at their peak on 13 December during the intense flooding experienced earlier this month.
Standard operating and response procedures are in place in the event of localised flooding incidents occurring according to Murray.
In the meantime, we are advising members of the public to exercise caution in the vicinity of waterways during the Christmas period due to forecasts of heavy rain and higher than average tides.
Rainfall
High levels of rainfall in the past number of days in the Shannon catchment area has led to water levels in Lough Derg that have continued to rise.
Consequently, water flowing through the Parteen Weir at Lough Derg has today increased to 405 cubic metres per second (cumecs), according to the ESB.
Yesterday, the flow of water at the weir was 370 cumecs while at the peak of the floods following storm Desmond it reached 440 cumecs
In normal conditions, the flow of water through the weir is about 10 cumecs.
The ESB are therefore today warning that there is an increased risk of flooding on land and property in the vicinity of the Shannon downstream of Parteen Weir.
Some of these areas include Springfield, Montpelier, Castleconnell, Annacotty and the University of Limerick.
The situation could be set to worsen with Met Éireann predicting “very wet and very windy weather” for this afternoon as heavy rain pushes in from the Atlantic.
People in ‘at risk’ areas are being warned to avoid walking along riverbanks with motorists advised to check local authority warnings before making a journey.
Flooding advice is available on www.flooding.ie. Information included on the website includes advice on identifying flooding risks, protecting property against flooding, necessary steps to be taken if a property is flooded, and assessing and repairing property damaged by flooding.
Additional reporting Cianan Brennan
First published 12.23
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“Drivers as asked to contact their local authority”. Are you having a laugh?
Just try and contact Cork County Council today
The government need to brace for a reality check come the next election. The people want solutions & funding, of which fine gael have provided neither
Government think promises to do this if re elected are enough. The morons will believe and vote for them.
Yeah, because the rain and floods are the present governments fault. FF in power for the majority of the previous 30 years and for the last 10 of their years they had funds for flooding. How is this the governments fault? It would seem that if any organisations have been dragging their collective feet its local councils and the OPW.
-Between lough Allen and Killaloe most of the length of the shannon approx 200km there is only a drop of 17m. The shannon drains one fifth of Ireland mostly the most uninhabited regions in Europe. This region is basically a big lake especially during the rainy season which is most of the year. If you build a house on a lake or run a farm or business on a lake then u must anticipate problems. Defences are of course required for the big cities and towns like Limerick, Athlone. We are only now building defences for the Dodder (many of which is inadequate for the climate change). It passes through most of south dublin over a very short distance and high elevation. So lets get real about what can really be done on the shannon and the region…watersports yes, water and lake fishing yes, river cruising yes. Water houses no.
Glad I still have the pumps. Any chance the responsible body have fixed the break in the river defence at Annacotty? (Hint:answer is not yet)
No end to this carnage
Ironic how water is causing a lot of problems these day
Meanwhile some where warm and dry; Enda Kenny drops the baluga caviar…..bugger!
I hear that the good people of the Shannon region have changed their minds, Dublin can have some water after all.
Cheers.
Neglected by government for years,and all we hear is if elected,we will do this and that.fg,lab,had 5 years and done nothing for the people of this country.
And will continue to be neglected IF relected.
Neglected for years? Have a look at the picture accompanying this article. What gombeens gave permission to build those buildings? What brown envelopes were passed? It was the local politicians not the national. Builders/politicians/auctioneers/planners all knew this area would flood and yet it’s been built on.This type of building in the river/ocean flood areas has been going on for years and flood defences would not be needed if the permission was not given in the first place.
Councillors should play no part in planning and zoning. They generally offer no expertise ( nor would you expect them to). So what’s in it for me?
And these things were to be investigated, but Phil Hogan,a member of fg,lab government at the tme, blocked the investigation taking place as it was to reveal corruption within both parties .
Could I ask a question of which there may well be a very valid answer, however I can’t find one? The UK has a flood warning information website which gives up to date flood risk information, and they give out the same information on their environment agency website, yet all we seem to have is the flooding.ie website run by the OPW which gives no realtime information or news whatsoever.
Am I missing out on an Irish website somewhere or have we no capability for realtime flood news?
Waterlevel.ie
Thank you sir. A little bit more complicated then UK websites but it will do the job. Cheers.
Time to reignite the “sink Longford ”
to prevent future flooding campaign again.
We inherited most of our infrastructure from the 1800/1900′s built and designed by the British. We have neglected it ever since through boom times etc. When did we last build reservoirs to supply clean water to towns and cities? We could have relieved the pressure on the Shannon by many means but we didn’t and won’t as the people concerned only want to collect their big salaries and pensions — that is their priority. Anybody in the BOW get fired for failing to protect homes and lives? I bet they get a bonus or a bloody award for something worthless. Shame on them.
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