A planning application is to be submitted to improve and expand the Ballyhilty Water Treatment Plant in Cork.

Irish Water has teamed up with Cork County Council to upgrade the Skibbereen Regional Water Supply Scheme to ensure customers are provided with a safe, secure and reliable supply of drinking water.

The works proposed for the Skibbereen Regional Water Supply Scheme include the upgrading and expansion of the existing treatment plants at Ballyhilty and Lake Cross near Skibbereen. The works will also provide additional storage of drinking water at Schull, Leap and Sherkin Island as well as providing for the construction of trunk mains interconnecting Skibbereen to Schull and Drimoleague.

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Irish Water's Gerry O'Donnell said: "The proposed works at the Ballyhilty plant provide for new raw water storage tanks, enhanced upgrade and expansion of the treatment facilities for treating drinking water and sludge treatment works. The current abstraction points on the River Ilen at Castledonovan and Ballyhilty will be consolidated to a single point upstream of Ballyhilty Bridge."

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