Today is the last day for submissions as part of Uisce Éireann’s Public Consultation on the Shannon pipeline.
The controversial plan to pipe water 170 kilometres from Tipperary to Dublin has been met with opposition locally.
Uisce Éireann says the Water Supply Project Eastern and Midlands Region project will be one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of State
The utility says it is needed to supply up to 50% of the State’s population.
Water from the Parteen Basin will be treated at a plant near Birdhill and piped 170km through north Tipperary, Offaly and Kildare to a reservoir at Peamount in County Dublin.
Uisce Éireann has hosted a number of public information open days this year at various locations in Tipp as well as Offaly and Kildare as part of a non-statuary consultation process which ends at midnight tonight.
The company says it has already had constructive engagement with stakeholders, landowners and communities along the route and promised to review any submissions put in before tonight’s deadline.
