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CONTRACTS for the €12.2 million sewerage scheme for Scariff are be- ing signed tomorrow (Wednesday).
Councillors for the area had it con- firmed last week that after years of campaigning for the scheme and much wrangling over funding, it is now certain to go ahead.
News that the contracts have finally been brought to the table broke at the opening of Clare County Council’s Scariff area offices last week, when Mayor of Clare, Patricia McCarthy, announced that she had a date for the signing.
At a later meeting of the elected
members for the area, senior execu- tive engineer, Sean Lenihan, con- firmed that the contract had been awarded to Mayo firm, G and D Ley- CaF
“It’s a twelve month contract and all three elements definitely have to be finshed in that time,” said Sean.
Once complete, the scheme will result in a major reduction in the amount of pollutants which are flow- ing into Lough Derg.
It will also open the doors for ex- pansion and development in Scarilff, Feakle, Tuamgraney and Whitegate.
The announcement that the scheme will now defintely go ahead was warmly welcomed by the elected
members for the Scariff area.
“I’m very pleased that the long road to making this scheme a reality 1s at an end. It’s been a long time com- ing but I’m delighted to hear that we are at last at the signing of contracts stage,’ Cllr Pat Hayes said.
Cllr Hayes also asked that the coun- cil should now look at issues such as working on the problems with water pressure in Juamgraney. “We were advised not to rock the boat while the process of getting funding was on-going but now, when we have the contractors on-site would be the time to tackle some of these issues,” he said.
Cllr Colm Wiley said there are
“houses out the Mountshannon road which should be included. I can’t un- derstand how we didn’t have them included in the first place”.
The council engineer agreed with members that it would “be a good time to look at some of the other needs, when the town is excavated for this project’, Sean Lenihan said.
He added that while talks could be had with the contractor on some 1s- sues, Others might come under the remit of funding for small schemes.
“Tm looking at alternative ways of funding and getting work done while we have the workers on site and I’ll do all I can on the issues that have been raised,” he told the meeting.