Extraordinary Meeting – Reenascreena Community Hall

Thursday 21 July at 9pm, open to all

If you're affected by this issue please come along and have your say.

Reenascreena Community Action Group has called an extraordinary meeting for Thursday evening to discuss the water supply outages that are currently plaguing the area. The water supply has failed several times over recent days, with no apparent explanation from Cork County Council as to why the outages have occurred or what is being done to rectify the situation. Meanwhile residents of Rosscarbery, Clonakilty and further afield continue to enjoy an uninterrupted supply of water, despite the fact that they are all supplied by the Argideen river, which rises just outside Reenascreena.

Locals are incensed that they are without water for essentials like drinking, cooking and washing while other communities served by the same water source seem to have plenty of water – not just for the essentials, but also to spray their gardens, power-wash their patios and rinse down their cars.

“It's a shambles,” said Calvin Jones, PRO of the Reenascreena Community Action Group, which called Thursday's meeting. “This happens every year. We can't even bathe our children or flush the toilet – yet there seems to be plenty of water to supply other areas. There's obviously a problem with the water infrastructure in Reenascreena, but there's simply no communication. Nobody's telling us what's causing the problem, and, more importantly, what they are doing to rectify the situation.”

Cork County Engineer Michael Tobin, who's responsible for the water supply to the Reenascreena area, and several County Councilors have been invited to Thursday's meeting.