Poor Monitoring of Private Water Supplies Putting People’s Health At Risk – EPA
One fifth of people in Ireland get their drinking water from private water supplies. In 2016, boil water notices were imposed on 126 private water supplies, affecting a population of over 7,000 people. Local authority monitoring and enforcement of private water supplies is not adequate. Many local authorities did not monitor all supplies in their […]
EPA Warns 5 Industrial Sites To Improve Their Environmental Performance
The EPA has today launched a new enforcement initiative to drive further environmental compliance at industrial and waste facilities. Licensed facilities with the poorest compliance status are identified as National Priority Sites for enforcement using a new system developed by the EPA. Points are allocated to each site based on compliance data such as complaints, incidents and […]
