A new wastewater pumping station is to be developed in Skerries, Dublin.

Irish Water confirmed the Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land at Holmpatrick is currently underway.

As soon as it has been completed the €5.1 million project will increase the capacity of the wastewater network in the area.

Construction work is expected to commence in March 2017 and take 18 months to complete.

The new Rush Road Pumping Station will have the capacity to service a population equivalent (P.E.) of over 14,000 people, which will support the future development in Skerries, Loughshinny and Kelly’s Bay.

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Michael Tinsley, Asset Programmes Manager at Irish Water said: "The construction of a new wastewater pumping station and gravity sewers at Rush Road will ensure the wastewater network in Skerries will have the capacity to serve the community. Irish Water has a separate project in place to replace the old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Loughshinny and pump the flows into Skerries. The contract for the Loughshinny project will go to tender late in 2016 and delivery is linked to this Rush Road Pumping Station project. It is planned that the Loughshinny Waste Water Plant will be completed by 2019."

(CD/MH)