Irish Water has issued a Boil Water Notice on the Fintown Public Water Supply in Donegal following the detection of low levels of cryptosporidium.

A routine water sample detected cryptosporidium in the treated water coming from the Fintown Water Treatment Plant and as a result the boil water notice has been put in place to protect the 450 people who are supplied from this plant.

Laurence Nash, Irish Water's Regional Operations Lead for Donegal, said: "Public health is our number one priority and while we investigate the source of this contamination it is imperative that people adhere to the boil water notice. We will be contacting vulnerable customers supplied by this scheme who have self-declared to Irish Water directly by telephone and distributing door to door notifications to all premises in this area. Irish Water and Donegal County Council are liaising with the HSE to lift this notice as quickly as possible and a continuous sampling and testing programme has been put in place."

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Irish Water is currently investing €1.1 million to connect the Fintown water supply to the Glenties supply. As part of these works 5km of watermains in the Glenties, Fintown and Meenahalla areas are being replaced as well as the construction of two booster pumping stations.

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