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Banteer Community News

Banteer And Area Water Supply Disruption

The recent line breakage on the Millstreet road west of Banteer village was the 4th such interruption to the water supply locally in the last 3 months and areas such as Rathcoole, Dromcummer, and Banteer areas were left with no water again.

The local Community Council has called for the installation of a water reservoir to serve Banteer and surrounding areas with the water supplied from the Poulgorm water source.

The Poulgorm scheme was developed by Cork County Council many years ago and is a pumped system with no water storage system in place to cater for planned or unplanned outages at the Poulgorm pump station.

In the last 3 months we have now had 4 unplanned water outages to Banteer due to:

• Failure of a turbidity instrument in Nov 2023 with an outage of up to 8 hours

• On 11th Jan 2024 for 5 hours due to water supply pipe damage, caused by machine work at Banteer bridge on Clonmeen road.

• On 14th Jan 2024 due to a problem with turbidity of water

• On 31st Jan 2024 due to line breakage west of Banteer

This is not acceptable in these times especially when you have many areas depending on the water supply from a pumped system including schools, childcare centres, businesses ,farmers etc. Banteer is believed to be one of only 2 village areas in Cork County with no reservoir water storage system.

Community Text Alert Scheme

Text alert money €10 due by end Feb latest for 2024, please pay to your local Community Council members. Note; non-payment will mean you will no longer get Comm Alert texts from end of Feb. Please forward €10 to Norah O’Riordan Nadd, Eleanor Duggan, Denis Withers, Mary Cahill, or John Buckley

Banteer Community Sportsfield/Park

Please support The Green Bean Café, open Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays 10am till 2pm for granola pots, selection of toasties, sandwiches to go, ice creams, scones, treats and coffees. Also opened on Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri evenings from 6pm to 8.30pm. Any volunteers who wish to help in café please contact Denis Withers 087 2820001

Congratulations to Amy Brosnan who recently won 15 and under Irish National Championship . Amy’s win also books her a place on Team Ireland for the Worlds Handball Championships later this year.

Aubane News

John Dineen, Aubane Social Club Treasurer and John F Kelleher Aubane Social Club Chairman presenting the presenting the Proceeds of the Annual Christmas Day Climb to Maureen Buckley for upcoming trip to South Africa on the 10 March 2024

John F Kelleher Aubane Social Club Chairman presenting Linda Desmond with a slate in recognition of her winning a gold medal and becoming a Elite Champion last year.