Water pollution

Water Pollution

The Water Pollution Laboratory, Park Road Depot, Dublin Road, Limerick is responsible for ensuring that Water Supply is suitable for human consumption. The Laboratory is responsible for the following:
1. Licensing of discharges to sewers and waters. Application forms available in the environment department.
2. Licensing of air emissions.
3. Investigations of illegal discharges to sewers and waters.
4. Investigations of noise complaints.
5. Investigations of air pollution complaints, odours etc.
6. Monitoring of Bathing Waters, Surface Waters, Drinking Waters.
7. Monitoring of air quality for smoke and sulphur dioxide at 3 locations:-
Browne Thomas, Moyross & Southill.
8. Response and clean up of oil spills to water, acid spills to sewers
(in association with Fire Authority).
9. Monitoring drinking water including raw waters, settled, filtered and final
waters as available to consumer.
10. Water Sludge monitoring.

  Discharge Trade Effluent (or other) Licence (MS Word - 51 Kb | PDF - 171 Kb)
    to discharge trade effluent or other matter (other than domestic sewage or storm water) to a sewer