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Report reveals Clifden wastewater treatment below standard
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Clifden is one of seven areas nationwide where current infrastructure does not comply with a European Union directive for waste water treatment.
The area is highlighted in a report published by the Environmental Protection Agency which calls for the elimination of raw sewage entering the environment.
It’s estimated that it will be mid-2015 for the required secondary treatment of urban waste water in Clifden to be completed.
The report also highlights 42 urban areas with no treatment or preliminary treatment only.
These include Ahascragh, Carraroe, Kinvara, Spiddal and Roundstone.
Clifden and Gort were also listed as having not complied with all of the mandatory effluent quality and sampling standards in 2012.
Nationally, 94% of Ireland’s urban waste water now gets secondary treatment.
From Galway Bay fm newsroom- Galway Community Circus, based in Shantalla, have been awarded over €100,000 in social enterprise funding.
The Rethink Ireland funding is spotlighting just five organisations working to improve the lives of others.
Galway Community Circus was set up in 2002, to bring the art of circus to young people across Galway.
Alex Stewart from Galway Community Circus, explains what the money will go towards:
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A local councillor is seeking to develop a Sensory Garden at the Long Point in Loughrea.
The outdoor amenity can help improve physical fitness, health, mood and cognition.
Councillor Geraldine Donohue thinks now is the time to consider adding one to Loughrea, as part of the “Vision of the Enhancement of the Long Point”.
Cllr Donohue says people in the community have been asking for this amenity for quite some time:
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