Uisce Éireann advises Portlaw community of road closure to facilitate essential works

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Uisce Éireann wishes to advise motorists of a road closure in Portlaw starting Monday 23 September to facilitate a project to improve water quality and reduce leakage.

To facilitate these critical works, a section of Priest’s Lane (L-4034), from the junction with the R680 to the junction with Upper Brown Street/Carrick Road Lower will be closed for two weeks. Works will be ongoing from 7am to 7pm from Monday 23 September to Sunday 6 October inclusive. 

The road will open each evening from 7pm to 7am and local and emergency services access will be maintained at all times.

Local diversions will be in place and traffic flows will be diverted via Carrick Road Lower, Carrick Road (L-4033) and the R680. See attached map for diversion route. 

Uisce Éireann’s Leakage Reduction Programme Manager, Dave Murphy thanked the community for their patience and co-operation in advance of the works saying “We acknowledge that traffic diversions and road closures can be inconvenient for the local community and our crews will make every effort to minimise disruption. This project is essential to ensure Portlaw’s security of supply now and into the future.”

For more information on this project, visit our Portlaw project page.  

This project forms part of Uisce Éireann’s national Leakage Reduction Programme and will help us achieve our 2030 goal of a national leakage rate of 25%. The National Leakage Reduction team has made great strides since 2018 when the leakage rate stood at 46%

Since 2018, Uisce Éireann has invested more than €500 million to upgrade the underground water network across the country through the delivery of the national Leakage Reduction Programme. We are investing a further €250 million every year up to the end of 2030 - fixing leaks and replacing pipes to provide a more reliable water supply. For more information, please visit our Leakage Reduction page.       
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