The Environmental Protection Agency report also flagged struggling facilities such as Dublin’s Ringsend plant. Photograph: Eoin O’Shaughnessy
More than half of all wastewater treatment plants in the State are occasionally or frequently letting untreated or inadequately treated sewage flow into rivers and on to beaches, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The situation is “simply not good enough”, the agency said as it threatened to prosecute Uisce Éireann if it
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