SPIDDAL COMMUNITY WANTS ACTION ON POLLUTED BEACH

Date Published: 02-Nov-2007

The community in Spiddal is calling on various agencies to meet their statutory committments on water quality, after water sampling there shows "serious pollution"Comhairle Pobail an Spidéil commissioned the testing off one of the beaches there which showed large amounts of bacteria, including E-ColiToday's Irish Times reports that the flow of effluent into Galway Bay at the beach is a serious health hazard according to the water sampling reportThe Gaeltacht group is now calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, Galway County Council, the HSE West and the Department of the Environment to act on the situation now