Sometimes, really good ideas aren’t that complicated. Inspired by what he calls a ‘simple pollution solution’, Fermoy environmentalist and Countywide Drains Ltd employee Brian Jacobsen, has devised a method of greatly reducing the amount of plastic entering our water network.
Proven to be very effective in Australia, it involves fitting a modified fishing net to the mouths of pipes carrying rain water to a river – in this case the Munster Blackwater.
Standard engineering practice and a means of taking water off agricultural land, problems arise when plastic and other debris get picked up along the way and end up in a waterway via the pipe.
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