EPA Water Abstraction Register 2023

Note: townslands are now included (Column K, L) but not for all records

Redactions are under appeal with OCEI

Notes from the notes

eg 47 points of abstraction in Longford, what is this for ? just says land drainage, but why so extensive?

DROMIDICLOGH WEST Cork,

Agri food abstraction, two river / two boreholes (likely Carbery Group)

KILLAGH MORE, Galway

Artificial groundwater level for landfill cell protection – Cone of depression

150-acre landfill at Killagh More, near Kilconnell

W0178-02 https://epawebapp.epa.ie/terminalfour/ippc/ippc-view.jsp?regno=W0178-02

3. I7 Groundwater Management
3.17.1 Effective groundwater management infrastructure shall be provided and maintained at the facility during construction, operation. restoration and aftercare of the facility. As a minimum. the infrastructure shall be capable of the following

a) the protection of the groundwater resources from pollution by the waste activities; and
The protection of other infrastructure, such as the liner, from any adverse effects caused by the groundwater.

b) 3.17.2 Any groundwater arising from the construction of the facility shall be diverted to the surface water lagoon.

KILREE Kilkenny

Quarrying, Bennettsbridge Limestone Quarries

W78

70,000m3/day with a maximum annual average of 22,000m3

BALLYKELLY Wexford

Quarrying, Oakland Quarries

Wexford County Council No. SS/W161/04 

Abstraction is limited to 200m3/d from May to end of September and to 1,000m3/d from October to end of April.

Dublin City


Industrial

Groundwater well / borehole

Abstraction is restricted to 100m3/d


KILLIN Louth

Beverages,

MOYNE LOWER Wexford

Industrial – Groundwater Remediation

P0394-01

Abstraction rates agreed in consultation with the EPA and periodically reviewed. 

Assaroe, Donegal

Hydropower

Assaroe reservoir working levels (Assaroe Lake is a 578-acre artificial lake created by the Cathleen falls and Cliff Hydro schemes and is controlled by the ESB)

Colocated salmon hatchery

CARRIGANASS CANSHANAVOE GLENLOUGH (Cork)

Hydropower, three abstractions,

Donegal

Hydropower,

cross border agreement, no further details

CAHERTEIGE Clare

Industrial

Daily limit of 300m3 and hourly limit of 40m3

Reservoir abstraction,

Sackville, Kerry

Likely Ardfert Quarry Products

Discharge licence from Kerry County Council. Maximum daily discharge 40,000m3 .  Note average daily discharge 13,700m3 approx with maximum seasonal discharge of 27,730m3

Rivers, Limerick

three abstractions

Cooling

discharge of cooling water from abstraction limited to 2300m3/day

TARBERT ISLAND Kerry

P0607-02

SSE Generation Ireland Limited

IED/IPC Licence conditions to comply with

GRAIGUENOE Tipperary

Hydropower,

If the water on the river is low ( no rain) the turbine is not operational

FARRANAVARRIGANE Cork

Licence agreement with ESB, Carrigadrohid reservoir

Dublin

W0232-01

Dublin Waste to Energy Limited (Poolbeg incinerator)

Limited to 14040 m3 per hour Maximum and 570000 m3 per day 

Mallow Cork

Industrial, Groundwater,

P0403-03 Dairygold

Local Authority Planning Restriction 1300m3/day

LISNAGOWAN Cavan

Agriculture (Drinking consumption, parlour and herd washing)

Local Environmental Health Officer does not allowed us to use water for human consumption

KINDRUM Donegal

Aquaculture, lake abstraction, likely Marine Harvest / MOWI Ireland

Lwat25

Max volumetric flow per 24 hours (m3) =  6048

BALLYKILLEEN (COOLESTOWN BY) Offaly

Industrial, likely Edenderry Power Station

Maximum abstraction is 240m3/hr. under planning permission

CLONBULLOGE Offaly

Industrial, likely Clonbullogue Ash Repository / Bord na Mona ash landfill

Maximum abstraction is 240m3/hr. under planning permission

Colligan River

W0032-03

Treatment of Landfill Leachate, Dungarvan Waste Disposal Site

Maximum abstraction to Colligan River is 186 cubic meters per day

GREATISLAND Wexford

Cooling, SSE Thermal Gas Fired Power Station

maximum allowable cooling water returned to the estuary under our IPPC permit is 792,000m3 per day

PROCKLIS (ED Dunlewy) Donegal

Aquaculture

Lwat26, Marine Harvest / MOWI Ireland

Maximum daily flow (m3) = 34560

Aquaculture, Station Island Donegal

Lwat27

Yes Maximum daily flow (m3) = 34560

COOLADERRY (ED Fanad North) Donegal

Lwat28 Marine Harvest / MOWI Ireland

Maximum volumetric flow (m3/24 hours) = 175

Clare

Hydropower

Minimum lake level & drawdown.

CLOGH LOWER Wicklow

Agriculture

not to cause any pollution issues

BALLINTEMPLE Carlow

Irrigation, Forest Nursery Production, Coillte Nurseries. Ballintemple Ardaltin Co. Carlow

River abstraction

Permissible limit from Inland Fisheries based on maximum of 60m3 per hour.  

Dublin City

Temporary dewatering of an excavation on a construction site, Dublin

Five abstractions via Groundwater well / borehole

PJ Hegarty has applied for 2 Discharge Licences:
1. Dublin City Council, discharge licence to Waters, to recharge water back into the gravel aquifer within the site. DCC has issued the licence to discharge to waters (PCLW/005/18) and discharge limit is 432 m3/day.
2. Irish Water, discharge licence to sewer, to discharge water into the foul sewer.
Both licences will limit the volume of water allowed to recharge / discharge per day. This will restrict the abstraction.

MOYODE Galway

Quarrying

W376 04

Set of conditions relating to the discharge license W376 04

CASTLEGRACE Tipperary

Hydropower

Subject to agreed low flow compensation under terms of original planning.  Effectively turbine cuts out automatically when flow is too low.  Normal year approx 1 month.   2018  four months.!

LUNG and BANADA Roscommon

four abstractions

Industrial cooling

P0802-02 Aurivo Dairy Ingredients

SW4 abstraction limited to 6000 m3/d

PARK NORTH Cork

industrial cooling, nine abstractions

P0442-02 Irish Distillers

The maximum water abstraction rate from the combined eight production wells shall be 4,300 m3/day.

ARDCLONE Kilkenny

Spring water used as an ingredient in the manufacture of beverages, Glenpatrick

Groundwater well / borehole abstraction

Treatment of the water is prohibited with the exception of filtration

DRUMCAVANY Donegal

Aquaculture

River abstraction

Lwat40 Millbrook Salmon Hatcheries Ltd

Volumetric flow per minute = 5m3

DROMALOUR Cork

WP(W)02/18 and WP(W)07/11

Likely North Cork Co-Operative Creamery Limited

Wastewater Monitoring Programme for BOD, Suspended Solids, Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorous and Mineral Oils

BALLYHEST WEST Cork

WP(W)02/18 and WP(W)07/11

Likely Ballyhest Quarry

Wastewater Monitoring Programme for BOD, Suspended Solids, Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorous and Mineral Oils

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