This article is from page 105 of the 2007-11-27 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 105 JPG
CLARE Council was yesterday ac- cused of turning its back on the lo- cal population in favour of providing mains water for new housing devel- opments.
A motion put forward by Cllr Joe Arkins (right) to attach 15 previously built houses at Nooan, Ruan onto the town’s mains system was rejected because of insufficient water being generated by the council’s treatment plant at Inchiquin.
“There is a good bit of land zoned for developments around Corofin and if a contractor wanted to tap into that tomorrow with 30 for 40 houses they could. But these local people who
have been living there for the last 20 years cannot get it. It is the most doable water scheme that I have ever seen and this is an opportunity that we should not miss.”
Cllr Arkins claimed that the house- holders were originally told that there was not enough capacity for their collection, but a large number of houses have been connected since they were refused.
“After saying that there was not enough water capacity, Clare County Council went ahead themselves and build 15 houses. Nooan, Ruan is the very heart of the old village, most of it is in the 30 mph speed limit. We can supply Tom, Dick and Harry and we can’t supply our own houses.”
Senior Executive Engineer, Hubert Newell, said that there was problem with the Corofin water system and that they had made applications for funding to carry out upgrades.
Meanwhile, Cllr Richard Nagle (FF), called for an area around Lis- cannor Pier, recently purchased by the council, to be cleaned up as a matter of urgency.
“It has been an eye sore in the area for years and we need to get the basic facilities in place as quickly as pos- sibly. The rest of the project might take years but we need to get rid of the eyesore as soon as possible. A million people travel that road every year on their way to the cliffs,” he SrAKOe