What is happening with Water Charges in 2023 ? The first “excessive usage” water charges were supposed to start around July 2019. These water charges were then delayed until ” at least October 2020″ – and the first bills were then expected sometime in 2022 . The latest information from Irish Water is that the earliest […]
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Back in early 2013, there was a lot of publicity about the number of homes that might have lead in their water supply. As part of the water metering project – Irish Water checked for the presence of lead piping going into in homes and identified about 26,000 homes where lead pipes are present. (The […]
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In an Irish Water usage survey in 2014 – it was found that 1% of the 1650 houses surveyed were using 20% of the water used by all the houses in the survey. If the figures from that survey were replicated nationally – that could mean as many as 12,000 homes leaking 10 million litres […]
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On the original Irish Water application forms the main contact numbers were 1890 numbers. We have written before about the potentially high costs of ringing 1890 numbers – especially from mobile phones. Waiting for half an hour on an 1890 line could cost as much as €13.50 See this link: Cost 0f 1890 […]
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Refunds of Irish Water Charges It was announced in early September 2017 that most householders could expect Water Charge refunds from Irish Water before Christmas 2017. The Irish Water Refund cheques started going out on November 20th 2017 . All Irish Water account holders (not businesses) should have been automatically sent a full refund by […]
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