The Environmental Value of Dublin Bay

In the first environmental study which was rejected by the Department of

the Marine for being inadequate and in their new draft environmental impact

study. There is nothing about of basin dynamics - how this infill will impact on

whole of the Tolka basin and the whole greater Dublin Bay Basin. As has happened

in previous times some infill will cause segmentation and silting up of the bay.

Critically for people of Dublin and for Dublin Bay this infill will form as a plug hole

in the channel that brings water up and around the Tolka Bay when the tide comes in.

It is a critical area ( a wet land) added to this flared up in October 1999 since then

we have discovered that Duchas which is part of Sheila De Valara Department ( Arts,

Heritage, Gaeltacht, and the Islands) Duchas been a part of that entrusted with

protecting our Heritage changed the boundaries of the S.P.A ( Special Protection Area)

It is a S.P.A because of the significant bird life feeding there. Duchas advertised in July

1999 certain area then discovered under the freedom of Information act that they had

changed those boundaries basically because The Dublin Port Company wanted to build

there. It was really discovered by one of the members of the Dublin Bay

Watch - Joe Nolan who spotted a discrepancy in the maps.