Project Area

The study area is relatively broad, and will cover the following:

• lengths of river channel / watercourse that have hydraulic influence on the area intended to benefit from, and be protected by, any feasible scheme;
• full hydrological catchment areas draining to the downstream ends of those river channels / watercourses;
• areas that are likely to receive environmental impacts from any such scheme.

However, the focus of the scheme is the town centre and surrounding housing and commercial estates which either flooded in 2017, or are predicted to flood in an extreme event.  This will focus on the boundary of the area for further assessment (AFA) as defined in the OPW’s CFRAM Study, and shown in the map below.