Update on Rush Tower Bay Pump Station

In consultation with Uisce Éireann and the HSE, Fingal County Council are requesting to have the DO NOT SWIM notices at Rush North and South beaches lifted, provided bathing water samples collected today (Friday, 12 June) meet with required standards. Results from these samples are due back from the laboratory this Sunday (14 June).

Uisce Éireann has confirmed that the one remaining pump in operation at the Tower Bay Pump Station has capacity to handle the full normal operation flow of the station, and that there have been no overflows from this pump station this year despite occasional heavy rainfall events. Uisce Éireann has also advised that the pump station is monitored by a 24/7 telemetry team through the National Operations Management Centre and have an out of hours arrangement in place.

Should bathing water meet required standards, and consent is granted by the HSE to lift the DO NOT SWIM notice, the beaches will remain under the protection of a much lesser form of a notice namely a "Prior Warning Notice" advising of the enhanced risk of an overflow at the beaches due to the standby pump being out of order. The Prior Warning notice is designed to warn of the enhanced risk of an overflow to bathing waters but is not reporting that an overflow event has occurred.

If an overflow event does occur as a result of the last remaining operational pump failing, a DO NOT SWIM will be re-issued