BOIL NOTICE LIFTED IN PARTS OF COUNTY BUT NOT CITY

Date Published: 09-Jul-2007

Some 20,000 people in county Galway have been given the green light to drink tap water without boiling it first. The boil notice for Tuam, Athenry, Headford, Oranmore and Claregalway is now being lifted as water supplies are being provided from the County Council-owned water treatment plant in LuimnaghHowever the 70,000 people who live in the city area, and those who live in the county area west of the city out to Moycullen, will have to continue to boil water for several more weeksConnemara has always been Cryptosporidium free, and has had no water restrictionsThe announcement the boil notice is being lifted in Eastern parts of the county has just been made at a meeting of the HSE, Galway City Council and Galway County Council Incident Response teams