SHOCK AS ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCE IN OLD MERVUE IS CONTAMINATED

Date Published: 27-Sep-2008

The Galway city water lead contamination crisis is going from bad to worseThe alternative supply installed by the local authority in the area worst affected is now also contaminated with leadOld Mervue Residents going to the taps today found they had been switched offThere are no signs at the taps to say why they're not working just two days after they were installed by the city councilLocal cllr Terry O'Flaherty got confirmation that the water in the alternative supply has levels of lead well in excess of the permitted level of 25 miligramsShe says residents are upset and confused, and the whole affair is a shambles and a disgrace