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The flood relief scheme in Fermoy is on target with works expected to be ‘substantially’ complete by April next year. Photo: Declan Howard

The flood relief scheme in Fermoy is on target with works expected to be 'substantially' complete by April next year. The assurance was given to members of the Fermoy area committee of Cork County Council at their monthly meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

The OPW's Ger Barry attended the meeting to update members on the progress of the second phase of the scheme. He began with the Barnane walk to the community youth centre, advising that works beyond the Rowing Club including the slipway and walls surrounding the Riverwalk apartments are now largely complete and that finishing works, such as landscaping and surfacing, are finished.

From the community centre to Abbey Street on Ashe Quay, works are on-going from the Rowing Club to a private residence and are expected to be finished by the end of August. Landscaping works including limestone paving will commence at that stage, to be finished by the end of September. The wall running up Waterloo Lane is largely complete.

Piling works recommenced in front of the community centre this week, he told the meeting. The hoarding has been temporarily moved out to facilitate the works. The piling works are divided into two phases to minimise disruption. The second section is from the youth centre to Abbey Street. The works are expected to last between three and four weeks depending on ground conditions. Works are well advanced at the pumping station.

From Abbey Street to the bridge, the majority of works will be carried out from the river, as was done on O'Neill-Crowley Quay, to keep parking restrictions to a minimum and allow easier access to the quay.

At the bridge, a large section of the ground beam has been poured on the downstream section of the bridge and after it has set, traffic will be switched over onto that lane to allow works to continue. All works are on stream to be completed by September 1st, in time for schools re-opening.

The large civil engineering works from the bridge to Kent Street on O'Neill-Crowley Quay are being carried out from a stone platform constructed in the river for minimal disruption. Works are well advanced with sections of the new quay wall currently being poured. Backfilling works are underway and work on the pumping station at that quay have also begun.

Also well advanced, the OPW official advised the meeting, are the works at Mill Island where most of the walls are now completed and stone cladding works are underway. The pumping station there is well advanced. Progress was reported to be good at the Shipton site and 'Hawes Field' with piling, anchorage works and wall construction substantially advanced. Stone cladding is done and the pumping staton there is finished. The construction of the earthen embankment is on-going with approximately 10,500 cubic metres of material now having been imported into the site.

Meanwhile, drainage works on the Courthouse Road stretch of the N72 are almost finished. Gully connection work is to start next week. Most of the work will be carried out in the late evening or at night. The water main works from Toss Bryan's premises to the hospital are ongoing. The section from Richmond Hill to the courthouse will begin next. That whole project is expected to finish within the next month.

Members were told the OPW would continue to consult with local authorities and the Gardai in relation to traffic and pedestrian management associated with the scheme and all landowners and frontline businesses will receive continuous updates.

"Everything seems to be going well," Cllr Noel McCarthy commented. He and Cllr Frank O'Flynn asked how the shipments of soil for the earthern embankments was going. It had been expected to cause major traffic disruption and other problems. There were no real issues, Ger Barry told them. From 2-7pm, shipments are going out around by Coolagown but from 7pm to midnight daily, they are being transported through the town, empty and full. "There's no real issues. We are monitoring it. It is working. We're liaising with everyone," he told them.

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