DUBLIN CITY Council has told Clontarf residents and businesspeople they will examine the possibility of lowering proposed flood defences by half a metre.
The council stressed it did not know whether it would be possible to reduce the height of the Bord Pleanála-approved flood defence and still provide protection to Clontarf from flooding.
The council has had permission to build flood defences up to 2.75m high since 2008, but is now seeking to construct the scheme, expected to cost €9.7 million. Work had been due to begin next year. The council yesterday told residents and businesses opposed to the plan the overriding purpose of the flood defence scheme was to protect from flooding.
It said it would engage consultants to examine whether the wall could be lowered. It stressed it may not be possible to do this.
The scheme was designed to prevent further flood damage along the seafront and to carry a new arterial water main. The area was hit by an “extreme tidal event” in February 2002 and a less severe one in October 2004.
