Water standards at Ballyalla Lake are up to scratch again,but just about .
New figures from the Environmental Protection Agency show that the popular bathing location in Ennis is now EU compliant while ten other beaches across Clare also highlighted in the report retained their good water quality standards.
91 per cent of our beaches comply with the EU standard according to the 2009 report from the Environmental Protection agency …
For the sixth year running most of Clare’s bathing areas once again achieved good water quality status. They are Lahinch, White Strand- Miltown Malbay, White Strand- Doonbeg, Spanish Point Kilkee, Cappagh Pier in Kilrush, Bishops Quarter, Fanore, Ballycuggeran and Mountshannon.
There’s also good news for Ballyalla Lake outside Ennis, in 2008 it was classified as having poor water quality but its now EU compliant, however it has only achieved the sufficient water quality standard, and was last deemed to have good water quality in 2003/2004.
Despite the overall quality of our bathing water remaining high – the Environmental Protection Agency says they have concerns over some standards in beaches because of inadequate sewage infrastructure
Nine of our 131 beaches and lake shores failed to meet minimum clean water standards last year – showing no improvement in numbers since the previous year
