Irish Water is working alongside Offaly County Council to deliver the project, which involves the replacement of over 1.3km of old problematic cast iron water mains on the Clara Road exiting Tullamore Town that were prone to leakage.
Works started at Doolans Service Station and will head northwest towards Clara, finishing at the roundabout on N52. The pipes will be replaced with new, high density polyethylene (plastic) pipes which will improve water quality and reduce high levels of bursts and leakage which was impacting the water supply to customers in this area. The works will also involve laying new water service connections from the public water main in the road to customers' property boundaries and connecting it to the customer’s water supply. Where the existing service connections on the public side are lead, these will be replaced as part of this improvement work.
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A night-time water outage will be required from midnight on Wednesday 10 November until 4am on Thursday 11 November impacting customers in Collins Lane North, Carraig Cluin, Clara Road, Shrah, Tully, Tully North, Burlington Business Park and Axis Business Park. When water is turned back on it may take two to three hours for supply to be fully restored to all areas but it is important to continue to follow the HSE guidance on hand-washing.
Traffic management in the form of a manned stop and go system will be in place with local and emergency traffic maintained at all times. These works will be carried out on behalf of Irish Water by Ward and Burke Ltd.
Speaking about the works, Joe Carroll, Irish Water's Regional Lead, commented: "These works are vital to ensure a more secure water supply to homes and businesses in Tullamore and are part of a significant investment by Irish Water to safeguard the water supply. We understand this type of work can be inconvenient and we will ensure our work crews make every effort to minimise any disruption these works may cause."
