Fethard Area Water Supply
Audit:
The Fethard Area Water Supply scheme was audited in august / september 2008.
The Fethard area water supply scheme consists of three sources, four reservoirs, five pump sets and many customers. It has been, as all water schemes in Ireland over the last 5-10 years, subject to significant growth, often organically with development. It is now near max capacity, running significantly away from design/ optimal. In addition to this it was not originally designed to operate in the current regime and hence is using significantly more energy than optimal.
Audit Recomendations:
- Add booster pump sets distributed in the network to pump only where required and balance out the pressure in the network.
- Minimise the water produced in the spring sources that have to be pumped the most.
- decrease the pressure in the highest point in the network.
- use variable speed pumps and night filling opf reservoirs.
Implementation
The project is currently being designed for implementation in Autumn 2010. It is being co-financed by the Sustainable Authority of Ireland under their Energy efficiency retrofit fund, and it will explore innovative financing mechanisms and utilise standard procurement documents from the SEAI working group on Water services Energy Efficiency.
Results:
Results should b available from November 2010. It is expected that this project will save in the region of €50,000 and elinate the emmission of 200 Tonnes of CO2 (equivalent of 70 average irish cars)
