Lower Dominick Street will be closed to traffic for several weeks in order to facilitate to extensive sewerage improvement works.
At the end of March, the Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan approved the commitment of capital funding to enable the Galway City Council to accept a tender of €1.03 million from Coffey Construction Ltd to carry out the works.
The contract will be signed next Tuesday and works will start before the end of the month. The first round of works will see Nuns Island, Earls Island, and Dominick Street connected to the existing Galway main drainage network.
Wastewater from these areas currently discharges into the River Corrib and canals. Once connected to the main sewerage system the water will go to be treated at the Mutton Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.
For this work to go ahead, Lower Dominick Street will have to be closed to traffic for a number of weeks. A spokesperson for City Hall said the council has been in touch with businesses and residents in the area to explain what will happen.
“These works will cause disruption to traffic and we are apologising in advance, but these are necessary works,” said the spokesperson. “We have prepared traffic management plans and we will keep the public advised on this on a regular basis.”
It is planned to have the works completed by June.
