How Green Was My Three Trout?

Max!

s is so very often the case, Wicklow County Council have made a surprise move on Greystones today without ne’er a warning.

Or anything even approaching an explanation.

With a picture of a green river – and sure aren’t we 11 weeks away from Paddy’s Day? – the WCC gang posted an 11th hour notice on their social media. And today, we got the following…

The dye testing was carried out by a third party in order to identify blocked drains. Wicklow County Council traced the dye to its source and issued a notification in the event that the dye was observed in the Tree Trout Stream. The dye used is a non-toxic substance. Drain Tracing Dye is used for detecting the flow of water in drains, identifying where individual drains runs into a common gully and tracing leaks in drains. For streams and rivers, dye tracing is used to provide information about underground connections, groundwater velocities, flow directions etc. Water tracing simply involves ‘tagging’ water as it enters a system and monitoring possible exits to see where it re-emerges.

Wicklow County Council issued a notification as soon as they became aware of the dye tracing.

So, there you go – straight from the Wicklow County Council Ambush Division…