Project Area

Figure 1.1 - Study Area Location

The study area 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.

The focus of the scheme is the area adjacent to the Carrickmines and Shanganagh rivers, in particular the areas that either flooded in the past or are predicted to flood in an extreme event and have not been included in previous local mitigation projects. This area, as the nearby Deansgrange FRS, is part of the boundary of the Loughlinstown area for further assessment (AFA) as defined in the OPW’s CFRAM Study and shown in the map above.