The areas likely affected are listed below:

• Castlewood Ave, from Rathmines Rd to Ranelagh Rd and
• Chelmsford Avenue from Ranelagh to Leeson St Upper and all surrounding areas.

Please click here to see a map of the affected area. (PDF 4mb)

Tankers
Dublin City Council will provide a number of water tankers. There will be mobile tankers available to go to the areas where they are most needed, in response to requests from the general public or from businesses. We will also have a stationary tanker located at Belgrave Square. This tanker should remain at Belgrave square all day leaving only to refill if necessary.

All efforts will be made to carry out the work in the optimum time and to minimise disruption as far as is possible. Dublin City Council apologises for the inconvenience caused. With your co-operation and understanding we hope to keep the disruption to a minimum.

For further information please contact:
01-2222222 (9am to 5pm)
01-6796186 (After hours)

As a result of a review held yesterday (Thursday 4^th April),  the following phased removal of pressure restrictions apply.

1. With effect from today (Friday 5th April) we expect to return to a regular service, albeit with reduced pressures, over the weekend.
2. The reduced pressure regime will cease when full production is restored at the Roundwood Water Treatment plant. 

Dublin City Council wishes to apologise to our customers for the water restrictions we have had to put in place over the past week.

Due to the cooperation of all water users, we managed to save a significant amount of water. Our regional strategic storage, which was at an extreme and unsustainable low level last Thursday, is almost back to its target level.

We will continue to review and monitor the storage levels on an ongoing basis, but cannot rule out a return to more stringent restrictions if problems persist or the situation deteriorates.

Water demand is currently running higher than average due to the cold weather, which has caused an increase in leakage particularly on our old Victorian distribution system. Our crews are working flat out repairing any breaks as they arise. To help us in this regard we would ask people to report any location where they see water rising or running.

The single major issue still affecting us is the severe disruption to water production at our Roundwood Treatment Plant. This normally produces 66 million litres a day ( out of a maximum of  560 million litres for the entire Dublin Region) but is now down to  an average of 40 million litres a day, a shortfall of 26 million litres. There is no problem with storage levels of untreated/raw water and there is no problem with water quality of treated water. The region does not currently have a normal strategic reserve of 10-15% to meet such problems and has at best a limited 1% reserve, which will improve in future with new investment and conservation measures in the planning and construction stage.

In an effort to maintain storage we are asking consumers to assist us in maintaining adequate water supplies by restricting their use of water as much as possible. If all of our customers could reduce their consumption by 5%, and maintain this reduction, restrictions could cease almost immediately.

We expect to implement a gradual phased reduction in restrictions until Roundwood is back in production.

Over the weekend, customers should have water supply at their cold taps. They may not always have sufficient pressure at night to fill their storage tanks, but as these will fill during the day, most customers will be unaffected by the pressure reduction.  Customers should be aware that unlike some other utilities like ESB, water distribution systems cannot be operated and managed to the point where the exact locations and precise times at which the effects of pressure alterations (both increase and decreases) will be experienced, however we do make every effort to ensure that the times and areas affected are limited.

Dublin City Council regrets any inconvenience caused by these restrictions and will do everything possible to minimise their scale and duration.

Treated water storage is currently at an unsustainably low level.  This is as a result of production problems at one of our water  treatment plants. There is obviously no problem with storage levels of untreated/raw water and there is no problem with water quality of treated water. Storage levels of treated drinking water are below a normal operational level.

In addition water demand is currently running higher than average due to the cold weather which has caused an increase in leakage. Our crews are repairing any breaks as they arise. To help us in this regard we would ask people to report any location where they see water rising or running.

In an effort to maintain storage we are asking consumers to assist us in maintaining adequate water supplies by restricting their use of water as much as possible.

We strongly urge consumers all over the Dublin Region to help conserve water by restricting their use of water during the day as much as possible, especially over the coming days. Small adjustments to some of our daily activities can help to significantly reduce the volume of water we use without impacting on our lifestyle.

Easy Water Saving Tips include:

• Keeping a jug of water in the fridge instead of running the tap – running a tap for one minute to produce one cold glass of water wastes 6 litres of water;
• Not delaying in the shower – 10 minutes in a power-shower uses 250 litres of water which is two-and-a-half times more than a bath does (100 litres);
• Turning the tap off for two minutes while brushing your teeth will save 12 litres of water;
• Turn the dishwasher and washing machine on only when they have a full load;
• Minimising use of the flush on toilets and if using a dual flush system, use buttons 1 (small flush) and 2 (large flush) correctly.

We are asking people to visit www.taptips.ie for easy water saving tips.

We will be reducing pressures throughout the system in order to conserve supplies. While we will try, as far as possible, to maintain pressures during peak demand periods, pressures will be reduced at other times. This will result in lower pressures and in some cases possible loss of supply. People may notice reductions in pressure or loss of supply from 9pm to between 7am and 9am throughout the entire city.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will do everything possible to minimise the scale and duration of the restrictions. We wish to thank consumers for their cooperation so far and are asking consumers to continue with their water conservation efforts and to bear with us while we work to restore the water supply to normal.

It should be stressed that there is no problem with the quality of treated drinking water or with storage levels of untreated/raw water.

We strongly urge consumers all over the Dublin Region to help conserve water by restricting their use of water during the day as much as possible, especially over the coming days. Small adjustments to some of our daily activities can help to significantly reduce the volume of water we use without impacting on our lifestyle.

Easy Water Saving Tips include:

• Keeping a jug of water in the fridge instead of running the tap – running a tap for one minute to produce one cold glass of water wastes 6 litres of water;
• Not delaying in the shower – 10 minutes in a power-shower uses 250 litres of water which is two-and-a-half times more than a bath does (100 litres);
• Turning the tap off for two minutes while brushing your teeth will save 12 litres of water;
• Turn the dishwasher and washing machine on only when they have a full load;
• Minimising use of the flush on toilets and if using a dual flush system, use buttons 1 (small flush) and 2 (large flush) correctly.

We are asking people to visit www.taptips.ie for easy water saving tips. We will make every effort possible to maintain water pressures during peak demand periods, but pressures will be reduced during the times indicated above. This will result in consumers across the entire city experiencing lower pressures or in some cases a possible loss of supply.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will do everything possible to minimise the scale and duration of the restrictions. We wish to thank consumers for their cooperation so far and are asking consumers to continue with their water conservation efforts and to bear with us while we work to restore the water supply to normal.

Consequently, nightly hours of restriction will be extended to 12 hours – from 7.00pm to 7.00am each day, and will remain in place from tonight – Sunday 31st March to Tuesday morning 2nd April, across the Dublin Region. This should assist us in endeavouring to replenish treated drinking water levels to a normal level. A further review of water levels will be conducted again on Tuesday next, to determine if Stillorgan Reservoir is back to a sustainable level such that the current restrictions can be lifted.

It should be stressed that there is no problem with the quality of treated drinking water or with storage levels of untreated/raw water.

We strongly urge consumers all over the Dublin Region to help conserve water by restricting their use of water during the day as much as possible, especially over the coming days. Small adjustments to some of our daily activities can help to significantly reduce the volume of water we use without impacting on our lifestyle.

Easy Water Saving Tips include:

• Keeping a jug of water in the fridge instead of running the tap – running a tap for one minute to produce one cold glass of water wastes 6 litres of water;
• Not delaying in the shower – 10 minutes in a power-shower uses 250 litres of water which is two-and-a-half times more than a bath does (100 litres);
• Turning the tap off for two minutes while brushing your teeth will save 12 litres of water;
• Turn the dishwasher and washing machine on only when they have a full load;
• Minimising use of the flush on toilets and if using a dual flush system, use buttons 1 (small flush) and 2 (large flush) correctly.

We are asking people to visit www.taptips.ie for easy water saving tips. We will make every effort possible to maintain water pressures during peak demand periods, but pressures will be reduced during the times indicated above. This will result in consumers across the entire city experiencing lower pressures or in some cases a possible loss of supply.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will do everything possible to minimise the scale and duration of the restrictions. We wish to thank consumers for their cooperation so far and are asking consumers to continue with their water conservation efforts and to bear with us while we work to restore the water supply to normal.

Despite imposing restrictions on Thursday evening we did not increase our storage levels over Thursday night. Due to the cooperation of our customers we managed to add almost 10 mega litres of water to storage last night. However, this was still less than anticipated. We are imposing water restrictions again tonight and will continue to review and monitor the storage levels on an ongoing basis.

Treated water storage is currently at an unsustainably low level.  This is as a result of production problems at one of our water  treatment plants. There is obviously no problem with storage levels of untreated/raw water and there is no problem with water quality of treated water. Storage levels of treated drinking water are below a normal operational level.
 
In addition water demand is currently running higher than average due to the cold weather which has caused an increase in leakage. Our crews are repairing any breaks as they arise.  To help us in this regard we are asking people to report any location where they see water rising or running over the ground. They can do so by using the Emergency Telephone Number 01-6796186 outside office hours..
 
In an effort to maintain storage we are asking consumers to assist us in maintaining adequate water supplies by restricting their use of water as much as possible. We will be reducing pressures throughout the system in order to conserve supplies. While we will try, as far as possible, to maintain pressures during peak demand periods, pressures will be reduced at other times. This will result in lower pressures and in some cases possible loss of supply. People may notice reductions in pressure or loss of supply from 10pm to between 7am and 9am throughout the entire city.
 
Dublin City Council regrets any inconvenience caused by these restrictions and will do everything possible to minimise their scale and duration.

The areas likely to be affected are:

• The Malahide Road from Ardlea roundabout to Donnycarney church, including parts of Killester and Donnycarney
• Tonglegee road , Coolock Village, Harmonstown and Edenmore
• and all surrounding areas.

Repair works have commenced and efforts such as redistributing water are being made to minimise disruption as far as is possible.

Locations of Water Tanker

A water tanker will be located at Donnycarney church at the junction of the Malahide Road and Collins Ave East. The water tanker may need to leave this location for a short period to refill.

Dublin City Council apologises for any inconvenience caused. With your co-operation and understanding we hope to keep the disruption to a minimum.

Water is precious. Let’s conserve it.  

Dublin City Council

Water Services Division 01-2220600

Emergency Number        01-6796186 (outside office hours only)

In addition water demand is currently running higher than average due to the cold weather which has caused an increase in leakage. Our crews are repairing any breaks as they arise. To help us in this regard we would ask people to report any location where they see water rising or running.

Possible Disruption

In an effort to maintain storage we are asking consumers to assist us in maintaining adequate water supplies by restricting their use of water as much as possible. We will be reducing pressures throughout the system in order to conserve supplies. While we will try, as far as possible, to maintain pressures during peak demand periods,  pressures will be reduced at other times. This will result in lower pressures and in some cases possible loss of supply. People may notice reductions in pressure or loss of supply from 10pm tonight (28th March 2013) to between 7am and 9am on Friday morning (29th March 2013) throughout the entire city.

Dublin City Council regrets any inconvenience caused by these restrictions and will do everything possible to minimise their scale and duration.