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Despite a further reduction of 7.5 per cent in the allocation of Government money to local authorities last year, Westmeath County Council remained overdraft free, and still reduced its long term borrowings by €3 million, according to its 2011 annual report released this week.

Cllr Frankie Keena, chairperson of the environment and water services SPC launched the council’s Gum Litter Awareness campaign at the Market Square in Mullingar recently. Junior Cert students from the Loreto College together with their teacher Grainne O’Kennedy were there to lend a helping hand giving out gum wraps and running a competition. The competition winner was Liz Tynan, Ballinea, who won a €100 Mullingar Chambers shopping voucher.

The confirmation this week that Irish Water will be set up to deal with water services across the country generated a lot of dissatisfaction among members of Mayo County Council at their meeting on Monday last.

Westmeath councillors have vowed not to give up control of the county’s water services without a fight, after hearing details of Government proposals to create a national company to oversee the water sector.

Residents of Chapel View in Stoneyford are furious that both the developer of their estate and Kilkenny County Council have refused to accept that the water service serving their homes is inadequate and not fit for human consumption.

The new year brings a new set of figures for the elected members of Mayo County Council to agree on for the coming year. The annual budget meeting of the council takes place today (Friday, January 6) at 11am in Áras an Chontae, Castlebar. This year’s budget as presented by the council officials shows an expected reduction in expenditure of €1,699,697 on the same time last year. The overall budgeted expenditure for the year is €130,252,752 down from €131,952,449 at the same stage in 2011.

The disruption to water supply which has plagued the Coosan area in recent weeks should be a thing of the past with the installation of a new water main to feed into the reservoir this week.

A new treatment plant costing in the region of €5.2 million could see the end of the wanton pollution of Kinvara Bay which has over many years been subjected to the discharge of more than 60,000 gallons of raw sewage into its watery depths every day.

A Winter-Ready Information Campaign has been launched by Kilkenny County Council following its launch at national level recently at the National Emergency Coordination Centre in Dublin.

Amid public pressure and following four hours of intense discussion, Ballinasloe town councillors agreed this week to adopt a revised version of the controversial Town Enhancement Scheme.