councillor paid tribute to council staff who worked quickly to clear gullies and address the flooding. He said bouts of heavy rainfall such as that seen on Saturday were becoming “less exceptional” and that residents and business owners faced “paying the price of bad planning from 15 or 20 years ago”.
He said part of the river Slang, a tributary to the Dodder, had been diverted and built over to facilitate to construction of the Dundrum Town Centre. The centre was badly hit by flooding on Saturday, temporarily forcing some businesses to close. Most businesses were back operating as normal in the centre by Sunday afternoon.
Mr O’Brien said the Slang river was noted for many years for bursting its banks and that this had played a role in serious flooding of the Dundrum area after heavy rain in 2011. “Residents around Roebuck and Goatstown and business owners in Dundrum will have to be assured flood-alleviation works are to the fore when phase two of the strategic housing development for Dundrum comes before the council in the next few weeks,” he said.
Maybe concreting over & building a shopping centre atop of a river wasn’t such a good planning decision by dlrcc , CllrOBrien . Should the council (ie taxpayer) really have to pay to rectify shoddy engineering & development on DDTC’s (& it’s builder’s) part tho?