The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed four water supplies served by the Stillorgan Reservoir in Dublin from their Remedial Action List (RAL) of water supply schemes at risk of contamination.

Since 2008 the supplies have been at risk of contamination by Cryptosporidium due to inadequate disinfection. Irish water has delivered a programme of work and investment including the installation of UV treatment to remove the contamination risk for these customers and remove these supplies from the RAL following a final inspection audit by the EPA in recent weeks.

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"Work by Irish Water on specific actions recommended by the EPA for Public Water Supplies is well advanced in a way that would not have been possible without a national utility approach," said John Tierney Managing Director of Irish Water. "Irish Water has adopted the World Health Organisation (WHO) Water Safety Plan ‘source to tap’ risk assessment and mitigation approach to make sure drinking water supplies are safe and secure. We are already working on 171 Water Safety Plans on supplies serving 1.5m people and expect to have completed Drinking Water Safety Plans for 60% of public water supplies nationally by the end of 2016."

(CD/MH)