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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Kenmare water
YOUR "Kenmare says No" reporter writes amusingly about the Kenmare water supply but he is being briefed in Tralee.
The simple fact is that Kenmare is rightly refusing to be fobbed off with a second-rate solution on the basis of wrong or unconvincing technical reports. To its credit, the council agreed.
Kenmare has expanded, and expects to expand further, and hence needs more water. We all know that and accept it.
Prudent planning 20 to 25 years ahead suggests a shortfall of some 500,000 cubic metres in a dry summer.
The Kenmare area is fortunate in having been supplied with clean, unpolluted water from hill lakes.
Three lakes are variously used and a fourth lies close by. Those lakes have 427,000 square metres of surface area, so the projected shortfall could be met by skimming off the top 1.2 metres.
We are already needing and using some of this and, to many of us, that seems a plausible solution without serious environmental impact.
Nevertheless, successive reports have instead recommended taking water from the Sheen river, downstream of Bonane whose residents fear the impact of ever more oppressive regulation.
That would perhaps have been accepted if the lakes option had been properly ruled out. But it hasn't been.
Kenmare is an open and forward-looking town which wants to say yes and intends to say yes, but only to solutions it believes to be right.
John Skilling
Killaha East
Kenmare
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