Cork: A river runs through it
A series of mishaps and overspends on flood relief projects by the OPW call into question the agency's ability to deliver flood relief...
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- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
An Independent Review Will Restore Confidence
Dr John Martin, Principal Officer of the OPW Flood Management provided his response to Kathriona Devereux’s article on the recent launch...
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- Feb 4, 2021
- 4 min
Cork City flood relief scheme is our best option
Despite opposition, the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme will serve Cork, its people and businesses well, says Dr John Martin, a chartered...
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- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
Kathriona Devereux: It’s time to think again about flood defences for Cork city
Kathriona Devereux talks to a new group of independent professionals who have entered the debate on the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme An...
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- Feb 1, 2019
- 37 min
Ground & groundwater conditions at Cork and implications for the Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme (OPW)
Anthony Beese BSc PhD PGeo CompIEI Executive Summary Cork’s distinctive geology and hydrogeology has not been adequately considered in...
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- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
OPW Flood Walls Scheme for Cork
It is accepted internationally that climate warming is happening. It is physically observable to everyone in the day-to-day and seasonal...
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- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
Comments on the proposed Floods Wall Scheme and Tidal Barrier for Cork
As shown by the facts of the last centuries by several scientific institutes it’s obvious that climate change is happening: sea level...
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- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
Statement: storm surge barriers and application potential to Cork
Date 12 November 2018 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department of Hydraulic Engineering Stevinweg 1 2826 CN Delft Postal...
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- Oct 23, 2018
- 4 min
Proposed Cork Tidal Barrier and Flood Control Works for Cork City
Alistair G. L. Borthwick I am Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at The University of Edinburgh, an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall,...
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- May 9, 2018
- 7 min
Comment on the Proposed Cork Tidal Barrier and its impact on Controlling Flooding Risk to Cork City
I am a native of Cork City, educated at UCC and then a Fulbright Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1960s,...
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- May 8, 2018
- 4 min
Statement of Professor Philip O'Kane
I am advised that http://savecorkcity.org/ should build its case in a manner similar to the Irish Georgian Society: unemotional, ...
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- Apr 10, 2018
- 11 min
Review of the OPW cost estimate Little Island Tidal Barrier Cork
April 10th, 2018 Final W.F. Molenaar M.Sc. Prof. S. N. Jonkman Section Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk, Department Hydraulic...
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