Wicklow County Council have applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a Waste Water Discharge Licence to discharge effluent from Blessington Sewage Treatment Plant into Golden Falls Lake.

The Association by letter dated 5th September 2008 made a submission to the EPA on the application.
"Re: Application by Wicklow County Council for a Waste Water Discharge Licence for the Blessington Waste Water Treatment Plant discharge into Golden Falls Lake.
(Register No. D0063-01)"

Extracts "On behalf of the above Association I wish to make the following submission on Wicklow County Council’s application (in accordance with the Waste Water Discharge (Authorisation) Regulations 2007) to the Environmental Protection Agency for a Waste Water Discharge Licence in respect of the discharge from Blessington Waste Water Treatment Plant into Golden Falls Lake."

"The Association respectfully requests the Environmental Protection Agency to impose stringent tertiary treatment limits, nutrient removal conditions and monitoring arrangements, on Blessington Waste Water Treatment Plant Discharge and to consider possible alternatives to discharging into Golden Falls Lake just upstream of Ballymore Eustace.  Such alternatives might include discharging to Osberstown via Naas or discharging to Ringsend via City West.  Compensation packages would of course have to be negotiated with the relevant Local Authority."

The Association has also sought the support of many other bodies.

An Taisce made a submission dated 19/09/2008 and Ballymore Eustace CDA made a submission dated 22/9/2008. The Eastern Regional Fisheries Board (ERFB) made a submission dated 3/9/2009 and S. Deegan made a submission dated 12/11/2009.

The EPA on the 19th June 2009 requested Further Information from Wicklow County Council but no reply appears on their website.