Clare Island boil water notice remains in place

THE boil water notice for Clare Island remains in place.

The notice issued to customers supplied by Clare Island Public Water Supply on June 18 and will continue until further notice.

Following consultation with the HSE, Irish Water and Mayo County Council issued a the boil notice as a precaution to protect approximately 165 customers following the detection of cryptosporidium during sampling of the supply.

The notice remains in place pending the completion of further planned works and receipt of satisfactory monitoring results.

Irish Water and Mayo County Council are carrying out an assessment on the scope of upgrade works required to be undertaken at the existing water treatment plant on Clare Island in order to lift the boil water notice as quickly as possible. Upon completion of these works, a sampling programme will be agreed in consultation with the HSE.

In the meantime, all customers of the supply are advised to boil water before use until further notice.

Said Ger Greally, Irish Water’s operations lead for Mayo: “We fully appreciate the difficulty and inconvenience that a boil water notice causes in the community. We wish to thank the community for their ongoing patience and we would like to assure people that we are working to resolve the issue and restore a normal water supply as quickly as possible.

“Our priority is the provision of safe, clean drinking water and safeguarding that water supply for the future is a vital focus.”