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5,000 people without water in north Kerry after landslide
Up to 5,000 people in North Kerry have limited water supplies today following a landslide of elevated blanket bog in the Stacks Mountains at the weekend which polluted water courses.
The landslide reached over two kilometres in length and up to 55m wide place with mud seeping into north Kerry's most important water sources and the rivers Smearlagh and Feale. ...The Stacks area has been designated for wind farm development and locals had claimed there was a risk of landslides in objections to a wind farm which is under construction.
August 25, 2008
by Charlie Taylor and Anne Lucey
in Irish Times
Charlie Taylor and Anne Lucey
Up to 5,000 people in North Kerry have limited water supplies today following a landslide of elevated blanket bog in the Stacks Mountains at the weekend which polluted water courses.
The landslide reached over two kilometres in length and up to 55m wide place with mud seeping into north Kerry's most important water sources and the rivers Smearlagh and Feale.
Boil-water notices were issued to nearly 30,000 people in areas of north Kerry including Listowel, Tarbert and Ballybunion yesterday following the landslide.
Kerry County Council cut off supplies to the reservoirs supplying these areas after the rivers... [continue via Web link]
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