Under the AIE Regs to request any Drinking Water Audit Reports or related EPA inspectors reports in respect the following site: Ennistymon Public Drinking Water Supply
For the purposes of this AIE please consider any audits/inspections carried out after the published Audit Report of 07/08/2014
For context, RTK note the unusually extended timeframe of this AIE, 2014 to 2023, but we have been unable to locate any subsequent reports to the 07/08/2014 audit report, which identified multiple non compliances
The Remedial Action list is a record of the public water supplies known to be at risk and where the EPA is requiring Irish Water to take corrective action. The EPA has instructed Irish Water to submit an action programme for the improvement of each of these supplies and has initiated enforcement action where action programmes were not being prepared or were not prepared to the satisfaction of the EPA. This includes issuing legally binding Directions requiring specific work to be carried out.
The European Union (Natural Mineral Waters, Spring Waters and other Waters in Bottles or Containers) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 282 of 2016) places a responsibility on the producers of bottled water to ensure the source is protected and sets the quality and the treatment standards for the final product.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is the competent authority for enforcement of these Regulations.
Audit to assess the suitability of the Abbeyleix Public Water Supply (PWS) for removal from the EPA’s Remedial Action List (RAL).
The Abbeyleix PWS is on the EPA’s RAL since Quarter 2 2019 due to inadequate treatment for Cryptosporidium
This note in the audit suggests that results are not easy to access. It would be an interesting test case to submit an Open Data Directive request for Irish Water SCADA feed, which would highlight water quality issues in almost realtime: “Results have not been incorporated on the county wide SCADA system so cannot be accessed remotely by operators”
This dataset consists of drinking water monitoring results and water supply details reported annually to the EPA by water services authorities in accordance with the Drinking Water Regulations for the year 2020. There are 48 parameters monitored under the regulations, including E. coli, coliform bacteria, pH, ammonium, conductivity, turbidity, taste, odour and colour. The information on water supplies includes population served, volume, source type and treatment. The data is organised by year and by local authority. Each local authority data is presented in a separate ZIP file.
The data are presented on Excel Spreadsheet files. For each local authority for 2020 there are four files. These files contain:
The list of exceedances of the parametric value (limit) set in the Drinking Water Regulations
The list of compliance monitoring results
The shortfall in monitoring
Details of the water supply – population served, volume, source type and treatment etc.
The percentage compliance of all supplies with all parameters.
This dataset has been made openly available to all public access. Please read below regarding citation for further usage of the data.
The results and data are provided in Microsoft Excel XLS file format.
There are 31 zip files available. The approximate size of each zip file is less than 1 MB. Some of the files might be a little larger than 1MB. Once you download one zip file and confirm the download details you will be provided with a direct quick download to all remaining files.
For any drinking water data queries, email drinkingwater@epa.ie (EPA Drinking Water Team)
