MEP REJECTS GALWAY WATER POLLUTION CLAIMS IN STRASBOURG

Date Published: 19-Jan-2012

Independent MEP Marian Harkin, is continuing to hit out at claims by two government ministers blaming septic tanks for water pollution in Galway.

Speaking in Strasbourg today, Ms Harkin said both Ministers Phil Hogan and Ruairi Quinn said the 2007 outbreak of cryptosporidium in Galway was down to septic tanks.

Speaking to Galway Bay Fm News earlier this week, Director of Services, Ciarán Hayes, said that ground water levels at the time were high and that it’s plausible that they infiltrated the sewerage system.

However MEP Harkin says according to a report by the EPA – eighty four per cent of the urban waste water systems in County Galway failed EPA standards in 2007.