Meeting of Executive Committee

Minutes

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Date : 26^th April 2017; 7:30pm

Venue : Sandy Mount Hotel

Attendees :

Joan MacArthur (Chair)

Irene Lynch

Lorna Kelly

Paddy Dunne

Finian Loftus

Dave Turner (Secretary)

Liam Handy (Treasurer)

ADOPTION OF 05/04/2017 SAMRA Minutes – Accepted BUT remove the personal contact details from the EC Meeting Minutes which get put up onto the website….

NOTES OF MEETING

DISCUSSION – Website Update

Discussion suspended – pending supplementary EC meeting when DL will be available

Pending Actions

Remove advertising and out of date information ACTION : DL
Update the Committee listing based on the tabulations included in the SAMRA EC minutes (minus personal details) ACTION : DL
Add SAMRA EC Meeting minutes to the website ACTION : DL
A3 Poster/Banner for Sandymount Green : Action PD
Pictures of “negative” events – to be sent to DL/DT : Action ALL
Stronger Picture of Sandymount green v roundabout (contrast) possibly use Google image : Action DL
Set-Up new PAYPAL account : ACTION DL/LH (Treasurer)
Upload SAMRA EC Names and Roles (3 off : CHAIR, SECRETARY, TREASURER) to Website ACTION : DL
To work with Tom Ponsonby (XSITE) to gain website information required for transfer to SAMRA new server site required by DL CLOSED
Create new TAB and upload SAMRA EC Meeting Notes to website (minus EC Member contact details) ACTION : DL
To create KEY MESSAGES – coupled with photos as banners on the website. Additional KEY MESSAGE requested : “THIS IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT”
To transfer the previously agreed updated AIMS of SAMRA to website ACTION DL
- AIMS

To underpin the SAMRA constitution
To Protect and Improve the environs of Sandymount Village, Strand and Dublin Bay
To give the Residents a Voice, empowering and leveraging collective representation
A platform to :
- Provide Visibility of Proposals and development schemes
- Provide an integrated overview of schemes likely to impact the area
- Support Key Decision Points and Dates, enabling SAMRA input
To enable residents to develop key messages and make critical input to DECISIONS
The main aim of SAMRA is to Improve the conditions of Sandymount by the engagement and leverage of SAMRA residents to endorse, enhance and steer appropriate new developments

LEAFLET Flyer
1. Pamphlet/card Strongly supported, required for 1^st week in May. To design a pdf draft based on input from DT. To be approved at next SAMRA EC meeting Action (DL)
2. Pamphlet Doordrops – roads/houses to be allocated : Action JMacA

POOLBEG INCINERATOR
1. Collectively we agreed that this topic needed to be escalated from AOB, as the most urgent issue, due to the imminent start-up and ongoing commissioning activities of the Incinerator.
2. EPA Letter : Agreed that SAMRA response to the EPA letter was required. Not acceptable that readily available answers were not being provided to the questions asked which centred around baseline monitoring and the assurance role of the Irish EPA. ACTION : DM to provide a draft, INPUT from ALL and Issue by JMcA

FORWARD CALENDAR OF KEY EVENTS – to be re-visited
SUMMARY & ROAD MAP : NEXT STEPS

Website – as per above, target “Go-Live” : 12^th May
LEAFLET preparation – ahead of website

Pictures to be provided to support key messages

Letter to EPA regarding Poolbeg

NEXT MEETINGS

SUPPLEMENTARY MEETING NEEDED :– Sandymount Hotel booked for Monday 8th May 2.pm-3.30,Pembroke Suite.

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APPENDIX : CONTACT DETAILS (updated 05-05-17)

Joan MacArthur

Irene Lynch

Dave Turner

Liam Handy

Dave Madden

Dave Lang

Lorna Kelly

James Cassidy

Des Flynn (Solicitor)

Finian Loftus (Planning)

Paddy Dunne

Dermot Lacey says

June 30, 2017 at 11:15 am

This may be of interest.
Dermot Lacey

REPORT TO DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
SOUTH EAST AREA COMMITTEE
JUNE 2017
TEMPORARY BATHING PROHIBITION SANDYMOUNT BEACH, JUNE 2017.

Report

During a period of intense rainfall on the evening of 8th June, 2017, an emergency overflow was activated in a local pumping station, resulting in an overflow to Sandymount Strand. This overflow occurred a number of times over a 2 hour period. The pumping station is located at Ailesbury Gardens, Sandymount. The drainage network there and in the wider Sandymount area is served by a combined system, comprising of a single pipe carrying both wastewater and surface water. Historically, properties in the area around Ailesbury Gardens were subject to periodic flooding, due mainly to capacity issues in the combined drainage network at times of intense rainfall. The Ailesbury pump station was constructed to alleviate such flooding incidents. This system was upgraded in 2013 with the duplication of pumping main and has proved successful in protecting local properties from flooding.

The operation of the pumping station is linked to electronic information signs at various access locations at Sandymount Strand. These were automatically activated, notifying the public of the discharge onto the beach and that bathing was prohibited. This incident occurred at night time and was reported to EPA and placed on the Dublin City Council’s website the following day. A bathing water sample was taken on the 9th and laboratory analysis results on Monday 12th confirmed that water quality had deteriorated below bathing water standards. The prohibition was extended until satisfactory water quality could be confirmed. The prohibition was lifted on 14th June, on the basis of the results for a sample that was taken on Sunday 11th June.
Sandymount Strand extends into the adjoining Merrion Strand, where a seasonal bathing prohibition remains in place and because of this, water quality at Sandymount is vulnerable to the same pressures influencing the ongoing poor status of Merrion. Dublin City Council has submitted to EPA for their approval, a management plan for improving the bathing water quality at Merrion Strand. This plan has identified a number of pressures impacting on water quality. In general these relate to the water quality of local streams flowing from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Administrative Area onto and adjacent to the beach, drainage misconnections in private properties impacting on these streams, sporadic overflows from the local sewer network, including those from Ailesbury pumping station, urban run-off, and potential impacts from birds and dogs along the bathing area . The plan outlines measures to be implemented, with a significant emphasis on further investigations to be carried out, to provide a better understanding of the more complex issues at play. Assistance in addressing some of these issues will be required from Irish Water and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

Pat Cronin
Executive Manager (Engineering)
Tel.: 222 2069

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Dermot Lacey says

June 30, 2017 at 11:15 am

This may be of interest.
Dermot Lacey

REPORT TO DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL
SOUTH EAST AREA COMMITTEE
JUNE 2017
TEMPORARY BATHING PROHIBITION SANDYMOUNT BEACH, JUNE 2017.


During a period of intense rainfall on the evening of 8th June, 2017, an emergency overflow was activated in a local pumping station, resulting in an overflow to Sandymount Strand. This overflow occurred a number of times over a 2 hour period. The pumping station is located at Ailesbury Gardens, Sandymount. The drainage network there and in the wider Sandymount area is served by a combined system, comprising of a single pipe carrying both wastewater and surface water. Historically, properties in the area around Ailesbury Gardens were subject to periodic flooding, due mainly to capacity issues in the combined drainage network at times of intense rainfall. The Ailesbury pump station was constructed to alleviate such flooding incidents. This system was upgraded in 2013 with the duplication of pumping main and has proved successful in protecting local properties from flooding.

The operation of the pumping station is linked to electronic information signs at various access locations at Sandymount Strand. These were automatically activated, notifying the public of the discharge onto the beach and that bathing was prohibited. This incident occurred at night time and was reported to EPA and placed on the Dublin City Council’s website the following day. A bathing water sample was taken on the 9th and laboratory analysis results on Monday 12th confirmed that water quality had deteriorated below bathing water standards. The prohibition was extended until satisfactory water quality could be confirmed. The prohibition was lifted on 14th June, on the basis of the results for a sample that was taken on Sunday 11th June.
Sandymount Strand extends into the adjoining Merrion Strand, where a seasonal bathing prohibition remains in place and because of this, water quality at Sandymount is vulnerable to the same pressures influencing the ongoing poor status of Merrion. Dublin City Council has submitted to EPA for their approval, a management plan for improving the bathing water quality at Merrion Strand. This plan has identified a number of pressures impacting on water quality. In general these relate to the water quality of local streams flowing from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Administrative Area onto and adjacent to the beach, drainage misconnections in private properties impacting on these streams, sporadic overflows from the local sewer network, including those from Ailesbury pumping station, urban run-off, and potential impacts from birds and dogs along the bathing area . The plan outlines measures to be implemented, with a significant emphasis on further investigations to be carried out, to provide a better understanding of the more complex issues at play. Assistance in addressing some of these issues will be required from Irish Water and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

Pat Cronin
Executive Manager (Engineering)
Tel.: 222 2069

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