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Gerry even put the loo on a raised
platform to try to solve the difficulty, but nothing has worked.
“T contacted the council but I was told that they can put pipes in for me but until they get a new treatment plant, it will be no good to me. And God knows when that plant will hap- pen.”
Gerry maintains he needs the ground-level loo as the other toilets in his home are upstairs “and you don’t want to drag muck through the whole house if you’re working in the garden’.
Senior Executive Council Engineer, Sean Lenihan, said that the problem lies with the fact that the old main drain is shallow near Mr McNama- ra’s home “and the flow is quite slow. When the new pipes are in they will be buried considerably deeper and steeper and the flow away will be faster.”
The engineer said he would inves- tigate prioritising Mr McNamara’s pipe-work, but warned that it might be some time before he can be con- nected.
“We are waiting for approval for the tenders to upgrade the sewerage treatment plant but if we can make his connection live immediately then we will do that as soon as the neces- sary pipe work is done,’ Mr Lenihan said.