A few photos from the Fairshare Public Meeting of May 22nd 2007 in St Patricks Parish Hall, Main Street, Donabate.

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download rpt_on_draft_sea_scoping_rpt.doc Donabate Parish Council submission on the SEA Scoping report by Jim O'Donohue

download rpt_on_draft_ass_of_needs_20052012.doc This is an historic document created 18 months ago by Jim O'Donohue which was also attached to our submission to F.C.C.




Here is an excellent 5 minute video that was produced by FAIRSHARE for the public meeting in March.
FAIRSHARE VIDEO PRODUCTION

Here is a 30 page document called the Final Scoping Report which outlines the various different methods available to the varoius east coast county councils with regards to Waste Water treatment.
Final Scoping Cover Report 16 March 2007 (pdf Format)


Here is a link to the Navan Sewerage Treastment Plant information. This is a 40,000 to 60,000 PE sized plant. We have reluctantly agreed to this size. Please note the size of it.
Just Click Here
Try to imagine the size of a 850,000 PE plant.




THE Fairshare campaign group is calling on residents in Donabate and Portrane and surrounding towns and villages to attend a

major public meeting in Donabate Community Centre on Wednesday, March 14, at 8pm on the proposals to dump a massive sewage plant on the peninsula.

Fairshare chairman Stephen O’Sullivan said the general election candidates for Dublin North would be invited to attend the meeting.

“The proposed sewage plant is the major issue facing the peninsula at the moment. Dail candidates will be invited to the meeting and asked to state their position on the regional plant proposal.

“Candidates will also be asked to give their party’s position on the proposal. People in Dublin North are sick and tired doing other people’s dirty work. This odious plant proposal is just another example of a weak local authority foisting an unwanted project on a small community,” Dr O’Sullivan said.

Fairshare is aiming to make the sewage plant issue the big issue for the upcoming election. There is currently an environmental assessment being carried out on the sewage plant proposal and other sewerage-related issues. However, this will be completed AFTER the election and it is Fairshare’s view that Fingal County Council will submitting a planning application for the Portrane sewage plant by the end of this year.

A sewage plant treating the wastewater of up to 1m people will produce large volumes of sludge, odious smells and impact the scenic and environmentally significant estuary area.

THE VALUE OF YOUR HOME WILL BE IMPACTED IF THIS PLANT GOES AHEAD.

Stephen O’Sullivan,
Charlie Weston
FAIRSHARE.






You can sign an online petition and make your views known.

Here is a discussion board on the subject. Feel free to engage.

Check out the Wikipedia entry on sewage treatment!

Read the EU urban waste water directive!

On the 03/01/06, Mr Batt O'Keeffe TD Minister of State at the Department of the Environment Heritage and Local Government, welcomed measures to prevent emissions from wastewater treatment plants. Click here for details.

On the 8/11/05, the Environmental Strategic Policy Committee of Fingal County Council held its meeting in Ringsend Sewage Treatment Plant. Click here for a press release related to that meeting.

In order to make things easier, we have prepared a timeline which shows how sewage treatment has developed in the Donabate Portrane area. To download it, click here.

Fingal County Council voted today on proposals to build a regional sewage treatment plant in Portrane. The meeting began at 15:45 in County Hall, Swords, and was item 26 on the agenda. Read the minutes of that meeting here.

Read how Fingal County Council will responded to the 2565 submissions which were made in relation to the Water Service Investement Programme Revised Assessment of Needs 2005 - 2011. Click here.

At its meeting of Monday 10th October 2005, Fingal County Council decided on its 3 Year Capital Programme 2006 - 2008. This programme includes approval of €600,000 for a "Fingal Regional Treatment Plant" and €600,000 for an "Orbital Sewer" under Programme Group 3, Water Services. Click here for more details.

Read the minutes of the Fingal Council meeting of Monday 12th September, at which Fingal County Council decided to put the Water Services Investment Programme Revised Assessment of Needs 2005 - 2012 on display again. Click here.

The Friday deadline for submissions to the Assessment of Needs having gone, the County Manager will now draw up a report listing all the submissions received and responses thereto, and will then present his report to the county councillors. The county councillors will then consider the submissions and vote on the issue. At the moment, it seems that this vote will take place during a meeting of Fingal County Council scheduled for Monday 14th November, 15:45 to 18:45, but the vote may happen before or after this date.

**Thanks to all who came to the public meeting in D.P.C.C.**
Donabate Parish Council held a public meeting on Tuesday 4th October in D.P.C.C. at 20:30. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the community in relation to the proposed Portrane Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Read the article in Saturday's (August 23rd) Irish Times on the new €140m sewage plant in Portrane. Click here.


Fingal County Council put its Water Services Investment Programme Revised Assessment of Needs 2005 - 2012 on display again, having done so already during the summer. This aditional period of consultation was requested by Donabate Parish Council so that the Donabate Portrane community could make submissions on the proposed Portrane Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Download a copy here. It is important that as many people as possible familiarise themselves with this document.

Read our finalised draft submission here and the cover letter here. What do you think? Give you opinion here.

Draft Water Services Assessment of Needs 2005 - 2012, for a copy, click here.
If the elected members of Fingal County Council, click here, approve this report, it will be sent to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, to request funding to carry out the projects mentioned within.
One such project is the planned Portrane Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, as reccomeded by the Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study (G.D.S.D.S.).
Final date for submissions was Friday 21st October 2005, 17:00.

The Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study (G.D.S.D.S.) is a consultants report.
In 2000 the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government supported the proposal by the Dublin Region Local Authorities to proceed with the Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study (G.D.S.D.S.) to examine the issues that overloading of the existing systems is evident from marked deterioration in water quality, increased risks of flooding and concerns that the drainage system and wastewater treatment plants have insufficient capacity to cater for future development. and to identify solutions. The Study was funded under the National Development Plan 2000-2006 and Dublin City Council was appointed as the contracting authority for the Study.
The G.D.S.D.S. was commissioned in June 2001 to carry out a strategic analysis of the existing foul and surface water systems in the local authority areas of Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and the adjacent catchments in Counties Meath, Kildare and Wicklow.
The objectives of the Study were to identify policies, strategies and projects for the development of a sustainable drainage system for the Greater Dublin Region.
The final strategy report was completed in April 2005. Download a copy here.

The Fingal County Development Plan 2005 - 2011 was adopted by the elected members of Fingal County Council in July 2005.
In part VI (transportation and utilities) of the written statement of the plan, it is stated that an objective of the develoment plan is to to implement the policies developed for the Dublin Region by the Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study (G.D.S.D.S.).
"Objective WDO18
To implement the policies developed for the Dublin Region by the Greater Dublin Strategic Drainage
Study (GDSDS)."
Download part VI (transportation and utilities) of the written statement here.

Fingal County Council published its Water Services Department Business Plan 2005 - 2009 in December 2004.
It mentions that the G.D.S.D.S. recommends:
"A regional wastewater treatment plant at Portrane, to cater for local needs, with the option of intercepting some or all of the North Dublin catchment, and in the long-term be extended to collect the Blanchardstown (9C) catchment and possibly Leixlip ultimately."
Download the full report here.

In a statement from Fingal County Council dated 24th September 2007
Proposed Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant at Portrane to be shelved