Pollution Warning At Three Trouts River

Deer at Three Trouts River SAT24AUG24 Pic: Keith Scanlon

hen it comes to our rivers, it’s not always easy to find the source or the sense with pollution.

Sometimes it’s building works being careless somewhere along its path, another it’s feckwits dumping plastic chairs and worse.

Whatever the source, it’s always good to have people like Keith Scanlon around, the Delgany lad spending much of his free time testing the water of the Three Trouts River.

And he’s spotted something along the stretch from Charlesland to the South Beach. Something that might just make the water a little toxic.

We’re talking about a full grown deer, dead in the water.

Quite possibly the same deer Keith had spotted drinking from the river only a day ago.

The previous week, Keith had also found sewage as the water turned grey, the river only running clear again on August 23rd after Uisce Éireann confirmed the leak and fixed a faulty pump.

Hopefully, exactly what happened to this deer can be established, and, with Keith still waiting for answers from Irish Water, the circumstance of the recent sewage spill can be fully addressed.  There’s enough work to be done already, keeping the river free from people’s rubbish.

In the meantime, mind how, and where, you go.

Perhaps just stay on the banks, and read a little Three Trouts River history here instead.