EPA Prosecutions: 2023 (YTD), 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

The full list is hard to find on EPA website, go to this link, and use the Year in left hand side bar to see the cases in that year

https://www.epa.ie/our-services/compliance–enforcement/whats-happening/prosecutions-and-penalties/prosecutions-2023/

2023 YTD

EPA prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Boherbue (D0437-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Miltown Malbay (D0321-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Abbeydorney (D0417-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Kilmacrennan (D0513-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Mullagh (D0252-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Dunleer (D0111-01) 
EPA Prosecutes Uisce Éireann – Mullinahone (D0456-01) 
EPA Prosecutes an Unlicensed Peat Operator 
EPA prosecutes Western Brand Group Limited (P0831-01 
EPA prosecutes Uisce Éireann (Rathmolyon) (Reg. No. A0552-01) 
2022   EPA prosecutes Cork County Council – Ballyguyroe Landfill (W0002-02) 
EPA Prosecutes ESB Networks DAC 
EPA prosecutes Irish Water (Roscommon D0116-01) 
EPA prosecutes Irish Water (Belmullet) D0074-01 
EPA Prosecutes Rilta Environmental Limited (W0192-03) 
EPA Prosecutes Irish Water – Freshford (D0526-01) 
Director of Public Prosecutions prosecutes Arran Chemical Company (P0110-02) 

2021

EPA prosecutes Ashgrove Recycling (W0147-01) 
EPA prosecutes Irish Water (Upper Liffey Valley Regional Sewerage Scheme, D0002 
EPA Prosecutes Takeda Ireland Limited, Reg. No. P0693-02 

EPA Drinking Water Remedial Action List Q4 of 2022

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.

Vartry Water Treatment Plant Upgade: Schedule of Commitments and Related Documents

AIE Request, Dec 2022

Vartry Water Treatment Plant Schedule of Commitments

River Vartry Flow Monitoring Locations Assessment

RIVER VARTRY WETTED AREA HABITAT BASELINE ASSESSMENTS

RECORD OF HERITAGE STRUCTURES

Appendix

Compensatory Flows at Vartry Water Treatment Plant (Wicklow)

Includes RIVER VARTRY WETTED AREA HABITAT BASELINE ASSESSMENT Reports

Source: AIE to Irish Water

Nov 2022

AIE Request: Records from meetings of the National Pesticide and Drinking Water Action Group Working Group (NPDWAG)

National Pesticide and Drinking Water Action Group Working Group (NPDWAG) in 2021 & 2022:

  1. Records provided to NPDWAG by the EPA.
  2. Records provided to NPDWAG by Irish Water.
  3. Records provided to NPDWAG by APHA.

Veolia WWTP pumping station, Ashford, Wicklow

Ashford pumping station

26th Oct, 2022 5pm

No power

Holding tanks overflowing with a mixture of raw sewage and rainwater into the Varty river

Pumping station plant is run by Veolia, under contract to Irish Water

Reported to IFI who rang Irish water who then rang Veolia

Company run a similar pumping station in Rathnew

What is the alarm process WWTP pumping stations when power outages/pump failures release sewage into rivers?

EPA Drinking Water Remedial Action List Q2 of 2022

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.