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04/01/2013
Concerns Raised Over Dublin Bay Waste Dumping
Plans to dump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tunnelling waste in Dublin Bay, have raised environmental concerns.
Dublin City Council has published a notice that it had applied for a licence for the project, which would see up to 824,000 tonnes of “spoil” – mainly crushed rock – dumped at a location 3km off Howth Head.
If licensed, spoil material bored from the ocean floor will be taken by barge to the dumping site and disposed of at the rate of one to two loads a day over three years beginning in 2014. Council officials say this type of material had been dumped near the Burford Bank site in the past and the project posed no environmental threat.
However Independent councillor Mannix Flynn said the plans would spark a massive political backlash. “It’s akin to landfill and that has to be frowned upon. It is general disregard for a universally accepted beauty spot,” he said.
A licence application has been forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency, details of which have now been published. The material would be the by-product of a 9km tunnel bored to extend the Ringsend waste water treatment plant and expand its capacity from a population equivalent of 1.64 million to 2.1 million.
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Dublin City Council has published a notice that it had applied for a licence for the project, which would see up to 824,000 tonnes of “spoil” – mainly crushed rock – dumped at a location 3km off Howth Head.
If licensed, spoil material bored from the ocean floor will be taken by barge to the dumping site and disposed of at the rate of one to two loads a day over three years beginning in 2014. Council officials say this type of material had been dumped near the Burford Bank site in the past and the project posed no environmental threat.
However Independent councillor Mannix Flynn said the plans would spark a massive political backlash. “It’s akin to landfill and that has to be frowned upon. It is general disregard for a universally accepted beauty spot,” he said.
A licence application has been forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency, details of which have now been published. The material would be the by-product of a 9km tunnel bored to extend the Ringsend waste water treatment plant and expand its capacity from a population equivalent of 1.64 million to 2.1 million.
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