Water roadworks created Christmas sewerage overflow in Portlaoise
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Hot tarmac spilling into the public sewerage system by Irish Water contractors in Portlaoise, created a Christmas nightmare for a Portlaoise family.
The family were reportedly left with raw sewerage overflowing in their home, no water and no heating for several days over the festive season.
The cause was big coagulated lumps of cold tarmac that had blocked up the pipes between Newpark and Lake Glen, on the N80 Mountmellick road (see photo). Tar the road, not the sewerage system, was the advice of an exasperated Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley, who recounted the incident at the January meeting of the Portlaoise Municipal District.