McBreen Environmental is progressing work on a €2 million rehabilitation project on Cavan town's sewer network.

The project will address structural defects in the existing sewer, improve the performance of the network and reduce the potential for sewer flooding and odour issues.

The contractor, working on behalf of Irish Water, is using non-dig technology on the project.

Eunan Canavan, Irish Water said: "As part of the project, Irish Water has undertaken CCTV surveys of approximately 23km of sewer network to determine their condition and the extent of any defects. The sewers have been cleaned in order to ensure an accurate inspection and new liners have been installed into the existing sewers where structural defects were identified.

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"This is an essential project for Cavan Town and in delivering it we are mindful of the impact the works could have on businesses. Irish Water and the contractors have made every effort to ensure odours are kept to a minimum and trenchless techniques have been used for this project in order to reduce impacts on businesses and residents and to minimise traffic disruption."

Work is expected to be complete in mid-2019.

(CM)