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Beach Dump, Tramore's best kept secret.

category national | environment | news report author Saturday March 12, 2005 11:30author by Israel Finnertyauthor email izzofinno at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Tramore, Co. Waterford home to a three mile beach, sand dunes, back strand lagoon, wildlife sanctuary and landfill.

For years commercial and residential waste has been ‘legally’ dumped on the back of this beach. At high tide and times of flooding some of the waste ‘conveniently’ gets washed out to sea or washed onto the shore. There is also a great deal of leachate soaking into the water and surrounding soil and sand.

This environmental catastrophe has gone largely unnoticed in the past and has been successfully concealed from public knowledge. The plan is to raise public awareness and highlight this as in issue in a number of different stages.

For details on Stage 1 of the public awareness project go here http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68947
View of Tramore beach and strand.
View of Tramore beach and strand.

View from Tramore sand dunes.
View from Tramore sand dunes.

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Dump barely visible in background.
Dump barely visible in background.

author by Eoin Dubskypublication date Sat Mar 12, 2005 21:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The DCU Green Society's first trip away from Dublin in was down to Tramore, Co. Waterford in 2000. At the link below you can see some photos we took of the beach, the "protected" area behind, and the magical, moving dump. Coastwatch Ireland (coastwatch - at - eircom - dot - net) has been campaigning with others for local democracy, accountability and environmental protection in Tramore. Worthwhile to get in touch with them and the local anglers association.

Related Link: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~greensoc/wider_issues/tramore/
author by Eoin Dubskypublication date Wed May 11, 2005 19:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If you're in Ireland you may have heard the about a week or so ago that the Ireland was brought before the European Court of Justice for waste legislation violations such as those at Tramore by the Commission. The Commission included the photos linked-to above in their case against the Irish state. Ireland will be fined, but the local crooks -- like the petrol station owner who destroyed part of the SAC at Tramore illegally but is allowed get away with it because of his political connections -- will sleep easy.

 
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