Clare Fm - Podcasts

The long awaited delivery of an EU funded project will aim to make an East Clare region a benchmark for Irish Water Quality. It comes as the Waters of Life Programme will be outlining its high level objectives to bring the quality of rivers and streams in the Graney-Sub Catchment area up to a premium standard. It's now been over two years since the waterbody was included in the €20m EU funded Waters of Life Programme, which aims to combat the decline of Ireland's high status rivers. The Graney sub-catchment area also includes the Drumindoora, Bleach, Corra Rivers, Lough Graney and Lough Attorick and the area includes roughly 1,350 people within the villages of Flagmount, Caher, Killanena and Dromindoora. A recent analysis by the Local Authority Water Programme determined the water quality in the Graney River was 'mixed' and cited a high level of forestry and man made barriers as the main problems. The Waters of Life will soon be conducting a risk assessment of the Graney sub-catchment area to identify pr