BREAKING: Nearly 12,000 Tipperary customers affected by cloudiness in water supply

Uisce Éireann is working to restore normal water to almost 11,500 homes and businesses across South Tipperary after high turbidity levels resulted in an interruption to the Ardfinnan Water Treatment Plant. 

Customers may be experiencing no water in the following locations:

Goatenbridge, Cahir, Poulatar, Newcastle, Ballybacon, Grange, Ardfinnan, Loughryan, Loughloher, Loughtally, Marlfield, Newchapel, Rathkeevin, Inishlounaght, Nicholastown, Knocklofty, Grauige Group Water Scheme, Castlegrace, Clerihan, Poulmucka, Knockeevan, Derrygrath, Mocklerstown, Ballyhimkin, and surrounding areas in County Tipperary.

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Uisce Éireann’s Pierce Faherty said: "Flash rainfall over the weekend led to high turbidity levels which interrupted production of the water at the treatment plant.

"Work over the weekend ensured the plant was operating yesterday evening but further turbidity has impacted on production today, and all customers on the scheme have now been impacted as reservoirs have not had time to refill.

"We are working to restore normal supply as soon as possible and wish to apologise to everyone impacted by this outage."

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Alternative Water Supplies have been made available at Marlfield Village, Clerihan Village. Further alternative water supplies will be made available at Ardfinnan National School and Castle Carpark Cahir.

Customers are reminded to use their own containers when taking water from tankers and to boil water before consumption as a precautionary measure.

For ongoing updates, please visit the Water Supply and Services section of our website and quote reference number: TIP00098218

Vulnerable customers who have registered with Uisce Éireann receive direct communications from us for planned and unplanned outages lasting more than four hours. 

Uisce Éireann is committed to keeping customers informed across multiple platforms 24/7 and we encourage customers to engage with us through our website, X channels @IWCare and @IrishWater, on Facebook and LinkedIn and through our customer care helpline which is open 24/7 on 1800 278 278.

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