Ballybrack
Water and Drainage
Originally wells and cesspools
Vartry scheme
Bleed off @ Tassie
Surge tank @ Rathmichael
UDC critical (poss mistaken)
Pump + Obelisk reservoir
1950s Ballinclea + intermediate + new pump to higher level
1997 Kilbogget to Church Road to intermediate to higher level
Now a sophisticated system.
Scan maps??
Vartry
Township/UDC
1866 Town Commissioners.
1870 Commissioners signed up to the 1854 Town Improvement Act in respect of water.
1874 sanitary functions transferred from the Commissioners to the Guardians.
1879 supply was being obtained from Rathmichael reservoir at this time. Sanitary function still with the Guardians and TC decided not to apply for it back at this time.
1884 already some supply to Killiney Ballybrack. Committee advise guardians to provide supply. Reference to Mr Leonard's proposal for a pump to the higher ground, but the Committee would advise the Corporation that they should provide a supply from a higher level than the Rathmichael tank and so dispense with the need for a pump and high level reservoir. [Irish Builder]
1887 became an urban sanitary authority
1891 Town Commissioners thinking over their new water system for the Township. Inviting tenders for the supplying and laying of water mains, pumping apparatus, gas engine, engine house, valves, hydrants &c. Plans prepared by P F Leonard [Irish Builder]
1899 urban township
1902 UDC reference to improved cleaning of cesspools in context of upcoming UDC elections [paper cut]
1910 following plebiscite UDC decided to adopt a system of main drainage for such portions of the urban district as was absolutely necessary. [paper cut]
1930 1,500 inhabitants of UDC (incl all of Killiney Village) without water. Steadily worsening problem. Nobs can't entertain and others threatening to leave the district. Booster plant in Stillorgan reduced pressure to Killiney to well below the guaranteed Rathmichael 350 ft. - now down to 250 ft.
1955 residents of Killiney object to DL borough's plans for 95 council houses to be build beside the proposed Ballinclea reservoir, 4.5 mgal and may be covered by a park. Tenders invited for the reservoir. Residents annoyed that Co Co had bought up too much land for the reservoir and wanted to put in council houses to use it up.
1959 DL Corpo announce intention to construct a reservoir over 100,000 gal in townland of Killiney (? intermediate reservoir?)
1976 reference to letter (of 29/11) from Eithne Devanney referring to "the polluted condition of the [Killiney] beach resulting from the inadequate length of the discharge pipe from the grossly overloaded sewerage works at the mouth of the Shanganagh River." and to " the mile long slicks in Killiney bay , plainly visible flowing towards Bray or Dalkey sound, depending on the tide flow". The letter, from JBA Boyle, Caerleon, Church Road, Ballybrack, itself asked if the Roundwood reservoir, constructed in 1863-68, was inadequate to provide sufficient water for the rapidly increasing population of south Co. Dublin. It also referred to a drought and the low level of the reservoir the previous year.
1979 Dublin Co Co notice of intention to construct reservoir in Rathmichael - capacity over 100,000 gallons.
1981 Min/Env orders enquiry into Dublin Co Co proposal to construct a 2.3 mgal reservoir at Rathmichael.
1994 new £25m scheme for DL, to include link between Stillorgan reservoir and new reservoir on Church Rd.
Ballinclea
Church Road Reservoir & Pump
Intermediate Reservoir & Pump
