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Muir says protecting Derry’s drinking water key as he prepares to launch Mobuoy consultation this week
Derry Journal
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10/06/2025
Muir says protecting Derry’s drinking water key as he prepares to launch Mobuoy consultation this week
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Safeguarding public health, ensuring safe drinking water and reducing the
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environmental impact of the Maboy site is of paramount importance to me. My
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department recognises that it has a duty under the Water Northern Ireland Order
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1999 to promote the cleanliness of water in waterways and underground strata and
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will continue to take action to safeguard water quality and the
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environment at Maboy. There is no room for complacency and I take a discharge
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of this duty very seriously. To this end my officials have produced draft
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technical remediation strategy for the Maboy site. The draft remediation strategy
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has been developed to mitigate against the long-term risk that the contaminated
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site poses to water quality in the River Fawn and to address contamination of the
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Fawn ground water body. Northern Ireland Water's Carmoni Water Treatment Works takes
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the supply from the river water abstracted less than two kilometres downstream of the
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Maboy site and safeguarding the drinking water supply and the environment is
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unequivocally a priority for me. There is no room for complacency and that is why I am
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now moving to launch the consultation on a draft remediation strategy designed to
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address the risks posed by the Maboy site. My officials will require some time, likely to be
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just a few days, to address the logistical details of the launch of the consultation
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but I hope to launch it later this week with the engagement events planned for
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September. This was an abhorrent crime of an industrial scale and I've been on the
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record before I took up this job and I'm happy to confirm it again today that I do
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believe there's merit for a public inquiry. So I will be taking a paper to my
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executive colleagues in regards to this but the cost associated with the site you
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rightly outline is likely to be significant. This could cost up to 700
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million pounds to remediate this site and I will be looking to the UK
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Government not just in terms of financial support in terms of any future
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public inquiry but also in terms of the remediation of the site because these are
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significant costs for us as an executive to bear whilst we're continuing to
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deliver public services in Northern Ireland and also to do the good work in
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terms of supporting agriculture and improving our environment more broadly.
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