The water treatment plant in Rathgormack, Co Waterford, has been successfully upgraded to improve the water supply for locals.

This project was completed as part of a major modernisation project on Co Waterford's Water Supply Network.

Clonea Power and four other older water treatment plants in the area (Monadiha, Feddens, Whitestown and Clonea O’Sullivan) were decommissioned and replaced by the newly upgraded plant.

Approximately 10.2km of water mains was also installed to facilitate the local water supply.

David Sharry, Capital Programmes Regional Lead with Irish Water, said: "We are very pleased to be able to address what was a long-running problem for the people of Clonea Power, while also providing other communities in the area with a much better and more secure water supply. Customers in these areas can now rest assured that they are being supplied with water that is treated to the highest standards.

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"To date we have decommissioned the Feddens and Clonea Power Water Treatment Plants and these areas are now supplied from Rathgormack Water Treatment Plant. The upgrade to Rathgormack and the decommissioning of the remaining sites will be complete by the end of 2018. We are also moving forward with similar projects throughout the county which will see positive outcomes for thousands of Waterford customers and reduce the number of water treatment plants by 50%."

The councillors welcomed the completion of the work in Rathgormack and the ongoing efforts to modernise the water supply network throughout the county.


Work is continuing across the county to replace further old water treatment plants with modern state-of-the-art treatment facilities.

(CM)