A national campaign to drive down leakage has made its way to the County Monaghan area of Castleblaney.

Irish Water and Monaghan County Council will replace over 200m of old water mains along Market Square and Muckno Street in Castleblaney. When complete, these works will provide a more safe and secure water supply for customers, while reducing the high level of leakage and bursts in the area. 

Declan Cawley, Irish Water's National Leakage Reduction Programme Regional Lead, said: "These essential works will benefit customers in the area by replacing ageing water mains with new and improved plastic pipes, which will strengthen and reinforce the water network. The immediate impact of this work will see an improvement to water supply in the area with reduced leakage rates and unplanned interruptions when bursts occur.

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"Upon completion, there will be significant improvements in the network performance and levels of customer service in this area in terms of efficiency and security of supply."

The works are scheduled to commence in early October along the R181 and L75065 at Market Square and Muckno Street, in Castleblaney town centre and are due for completion in November. Farrans Construction will deliver the project on behalf of Irish Water.

The works will also involve laying new water service connections from the public water main in the road to the front of the customers' property boundaries and connecting it to the customer's water supply.

In order to ensure the safe delivery of works, traffic management will be in place throughout the duration of the works however local access will be maintained at all times.