Category Archives: Drainage

Lough Neagh

Posted on Wednesday 18 April 2012 | 11 comments

On 17 April 2012 the Northern Ireland Assembly held an enlightening debate about Lough Neagh and its future and ended by resolving

That this Assembly calls on the Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to convene a working group to explore and pursue actively the potential for a cross-departmental approach to bring Lough Neagh back into public ownership.

The report is here. It is well worth reading by anyone wanting an understanding of the management of the largest lake in These Islands.

Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Natural heritage, Operations, People, Politics, Scenery, Tourism, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Assembly, DUP, eels, Ireland, Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland, sand, SDLP, Shaftesbury, Sinn Fein, UUP

Royal water

Posted on Monday 16 April 2012 | Leave a comment

Here is a page about feeders to the Royal Canal. My confidence in the accuracy of this list is low, so comments would be welcome.

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Grand water

Posted on Monday 16 April 2012 | Leave a comment

Here is a page about the feeders that supplied water to the Grand Canal. There will soon be a page about the Royal Canal feeders; these will lead to an examination of the current and proposed supply of water to the Royal.

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NAMA and the River Suir

Posted on Friday 13 April 2012 | Leave a comment

NAMAWineLake has a story here. More on the Suir in Clonmel here.

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Tagged Clonmel, island, mills, NAMA, Suir

River and canal keepers

Posted on Monday 9 April 2012 | Leave a comment

No, not Waterways Ireland, the soi-disant “guardian of Ireland’s inland navigations” (it says here), which is actually responsible for only seven of them on the island, whereof only six are actually navigable, what with nobody’s having noticed that it wasn’t raining, but the Irish Wildlife Trust, which is providing training for river and canal keepers, although I can’t find any mention of it on IWT’s own website.

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Tagged Barrow, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, Royal Canal, Shannon

Royal water

Posted on Thursday 5 April 2012 | Leave a comment

The summit level of the Royal Canal has been closed until further notice because of shortage of water and the 34th and 35th levels have been closed until 20 April for emergency repairs. Marine Notices here, along with a general waarning about low water levels.

Met Éireann’s Monthly Summary for March 2012 [PDF] says:

Rainfall totals were relatively low for the time of year, with percentage of normal values below 50% in most locations. Mullingar [which is on the summit level of the Royal Canal] reported its driest March since 1961 (51 years), while most other stations reported their driest March in at least 7 years. Number of wet days recorded (days with 1 mm or more) was below average everywhere, with most stations measuring their lowest March maximum daily rainfall in seven to 39 years.

Can we have our normal weather back please? Or will that be coming in the “summer” months?

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Tagged canal, Ireland, Mullingar, rain, Royal Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weather

Lough Neagh

Posted on Friday 30 March 2012 | Leave a comment

An interesting point.

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Tagged industrialheritageireland, Ireland, Lough Neagh, water

Waterways trees

Posted on Tuesday 20 March 2012 | 4 comments

Nama to Nature has been planting trees at Keshcarrigan on the Shannon–Erne Waterway, along which far too many developers wanted to sell houses that would have fast boats parked outside. I don’t know whether my photo shows the Waterways estate or a different one.

Keshcarrigan September 2011

h/t Ireland after NAMA.

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Tagged boats, canal, Celtic Tiger, Ireland, Keshcarrigan, NAMA, Operations, Shannon-Erne Waterway, trees, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Polluting the water

Posted on Wednesday 14 March 2012 | 1 comment

Mr Hogan said he had been negotiating with the European Commission in 2011 and 2012 to minimise the impact of new septic tank regulations.

That’s from this article in the Irish Times.

Why does this chap want to minimise the impact of his own department’s regulations? Is he not at all interested in water quality?

Angela, would you mind invading please?

Posted in Ashore, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Natural heritage, Non-waterway, People, Politics, Shannon, Sources, The cattle trade, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Ireland, pollution, waterways

Charging Waterways Ireland for water

Posted on Thursday 16 February 2012 | 2 comments

Nice PQ from Éamon Ó Cuív here:

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail). Question 446: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Waterways Ireland will have to pay for the abstraction of water for use in the Royal Canal, the Grand Canal, the Shannon-Erne Waterway and other man-made waterways as a result of the reasoned opinion from the European Union in November 2011; the reply sent by him regarding same to the Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8122/12]

Here is the European Commission’s press release on the subject.

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Tagged abstraction, Éamon Ó Cuív, canal, Grand Canal, Ireland, Royal Canal, Shannon-Erne Waterway, use, water, waterways, Waterways Ireland