Solar PV development

Project scope

1. Raw Water Intake & Pumping Station site (RWI&PS) which will consist of: a Bankside Intake Chamber, Raw Water Pumping Station Building, 2 no. Microfiltration Buildings, Electricity Substation, (Totalling 3,165m² Gross Floor Area (GFA), maximum building height of 10.9m over finished ground level); 4 no. surge vessels; associated below ground tanks; 670m access road from the R494; 16 no. car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on a c. 4.1 ha permanent site at Garrynatineel and Kilmaglassderry, Co. Tipperary, and associated re-profiling works to the Parteen Basin. 2. Raw Water Rising Mains (RWRM) which will consist of twin steel underground pipelines (each 1,500mm diameter) extending 2km from the pumping station at the RWI&PS site to the Raw Water Balancing Tanks at the head of the proposed Water Treatment Plant, laid at a minimum depth of cover of 1.2m above crown of pipe. 3. Water Treatment Plant site (WTP) which will consist of: 2 no. Raw Water Balancing Tanks, 3 no. Water Treatment Module Buildings, 2 no. Sludge Dewatering Buildings, 2 no. Sludge Storage Buildings, Chemical Dosing Manifold Building, Chemical Dosing Building, High Lift Pumping Station, an Electricity Substation, Washwater Settlement building, Control and Visitor Building (Totalling c. 53,300m² GFA, maximum building height of 15.6m over finished ground level); associated pumping stations, lagoons, attenuation pond, above and below ground tanks, 5 no. surge vessels; 640m access road from the R445; 50 no. car and 4 no. coach parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground and roof mounted PV panels; landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground structures and works; on a c.31 ha permanent site at Incha Beg, Knockadromin and Greenhills, Birdhill, Co. Tipperary. 4. A single 1,600mm diameter steel underground treated water pipeline (covering a distance of approximately 37km in County Tipperary) extending in a generally north-eastern alignment between the proposed Water Treatment Plant and the proposed Break Pressure Tank, laid at a minimum depth of cover of 1.2m above crown of pipe. 5. Break Pressure Tank (BPT) site which will consist of: a below ground covered Break Pressure Tank (volume 13,776m3); control building (c. 800m² GFA, 7.5m height); 794m access road from the L1064; 10 no. car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground and roof mounted PV panels; Battery Energy Storage System (BESS); landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on a c.7 ha permanent site at Knockanacree Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. 6. A 1600mm diameter underground steel treated water pipeline from the Break Pressure Tank extending approximately 133km in a generally northeastern direction passing through counties Tipperary, Offaly, Kildare and Dublin to a proposed Termination Point Reservoir, laid at a minimum depth of cover of 1.2m above crown of pipe. 7. Booster Pumping Station (BPS) which will consist of a Pumping Station building (2,160m² GFA, 7.6m height), electrical substation, 1 no. surge vessel; access from the adjacent L3003; 4 no. car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground mounted PV panels and associated BESS; landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on a c. 2.6 ha permanent site at Coagh Upper, Birr, Co. Offaly, and associated power connection to existing 38 kV substation at Clonoghill Upper, Birr, Co. Offaly; 8. Flow Control Valve (FCV) site which will consist of: an underground chamber, electrical kiosk, access from the adjacent L1016; 4 no. car parking spaces; telemetry mast (14.0m height); ground mounted PV panels and associated BESS; landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on a 0.5 ha permanent site at Commons Upper, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. 9. Termination Point Reservoir which will consist of: a c. 8.4 ha permanent extension of the existing Uisce Éireann site; a covered reservoir (capacity 75,000m³, maximum height 11.2m); below ground overflow storage tank (capacity 5,000m³); chlorine dosing building (1,600m² GFA, maximum building height of 8.4m over finished ground level); ground mounted PV panels and associated BESS; 342m access road from the R120; telemetry mast (14.0m height); landscaping, lighting, and other ancillary above and below ground works; on an overall 12.2ha permanent site at Loughtown Upper and Peamount, Co. Dublin. 10. Electrical works consisting of uprating of the existing Ardnacrusha – Birdhill and Ardnacrusha – Birdhill – Nenagh Line38kV overhead line, between Lakyle, Co. Clare and Birdhill substation, Gortybrigane, Co. Tipperary; replacement of polesets/structures with a cable along a section of the Ardnacrusha – Birdhill – Nenagh Line at Gortybrigane, Co. Tipperary; works at the existing Birdhill 38 kV electricity substation, including the provision of a new 38kV gas insulated switchgear building (28m²) associated electrical equipment, and ancillary lighting, fencing and associated works; and a new underground cable connection from Birdhill substation to the RWI&PS along the R494 and to the WTP along the R445