Assurances on canal doubted

Assurances on canal doubted

12 Feb 1968

Assurances on canal doubted

MANY societies which work towards the preservation of the Grand Canal at Dublin are not prepared to accept Dublin Corporation assurances regarding reopening of the canal after the laying of sewage pipes along its bed.

Speaking at a U.C.D. ‘ Literary and Historical Society meeting, Dublin’s Assistant City Manager, Mr. Ruari O’ Brolchaln, insisted that those canal would reopen.

And he asserted that it would be a waste of time to make out a detailed estimate of laying sewage pipes along any alternative- route.

Housing needs

Mr. O Brolchain said that the proposals for the drainage scheme on tho canal bed had their origins in the needs of existing  residents living mostly south of the canal line and the needs of many others for housing and employment to be provided west and south oft the city. The extensive building in areas like Terenure, Walkinstown, Crumlin, Kimmage with the quicker run-off of surface water from hard surfaces, had overloaded the sewers which pass, under the canal. Those sewer’s overflowed into the Rivers Poddle and Swan.

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