Posted on May 19, 2025
๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ โ ๐๐ป ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ-๐๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐
Last week we celebrated the opening of the Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant in Ireland – a transformative project, representing a EUR 139 m investment to bring an end to the discharge of raw sewage into the Avoca River. The new plant was officially opened by Taoiseach Micheรกl Martin TD (Prime Minister) and James Browne, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
To mark the occasion, Paul Hesk, Managing Director Van Oord Ireland, presented two Delft Blue plates to Eamon Gallen, Chief Operations Officer at Uisce รireann Irish Water, and Padraig Burke, Director of Ward and Burke, alongside HE Maaike van Koldam, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ireland.
This landmark project for Arklow creates a healthier marine environment, increases the amenity value of the river for recreational swimming, surfers, fishing, boating and sightseeing and increases capacity to enable housing and business development.
Van Oord is proud to have supported Uisce Eireann (Irish Water) and Ward and Burke in the successful delivery of this project. Van Oord installed a 927 m long sea outfall pipeline, originally transported from Norway, in water depths of up to 10 m using specialist marine vessels. Our scope of work included the placement of 360 concrete collars and saddles on the pipeline, pipe joining works and the installation of protection frames and rock scour protection. Approximately 4,500 tonnes of armour rock was transported from a nearby quarry and installed as scour protection on the diffuser section.
The project also received the prestigious Pipeline Industry Guild Award for Subsea Pipeline Project of the Year.
