09/03/2009 -
Works Completed on Sligo Main Drainage
WORK COMPLETED ON SLIGO’S WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Construction work is completed on Sligo’s new Waste Water Treatment Plant at Finisklin and the plant is now operational.
The state of the art treatment plant will mean the elimination of untreated discharges into Sligo Bay and will enable Sligo Local Authorities to fulfil its obligations under EU Directives. The plant is constructed in a bunded area of Sligo estuary, which was developed during dredging works in Sligo harbour in the 1980’s.
The treatment works have a capacity to treat waste water for a combined domestic and commercial population equivalent of 50,000 and it has to be capable of being expanded to 80,000 at a future date. The facility will serves not only Sligo City, but also in the future surrounding areas including:
- Ballincar/Cregg/Rosses Point
- Carrowroe
- Teesan/Lisnalurg
- Hazelwood/Bellanode
- Cummeen
The new plant provides treatment to the highest standard including full secondary treatment supplemented by phosphorous removal and by disinfection using ultra-violet lamps. Sligo has been designated as a sludge hub centre and will therefore include a sludge acceptance facility and Sludge Treatment centre for sludges generated in County Sligo.
