Bar on drinking of Achill Island tap water due to ‘staycations’

Mr Laffey said that an unexpected consequence of the Covid-19 crisis was that more people were holidaying in Ireland and visiting places like Achill. The water treatment plant at Achill has a capacity for 3,000 people and for 98 per cent of the year this works adequately, he added.

“Everyone on the island, whether supplied by the Achill Public Water Supply Scheme or any of the group water schemes and parts of the adjacent mainland, are affected by this notice,” Irish Water said in a notice on Monday which extended the initial “do not consume” notice issued last Friday.

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