That gap, between raw water and a glass from the tap, is where Coffey’s Operations & Maintenance team does its work, and Lough Talt is one of the clearest examples of what that work means for a community.

Lough Talt Water Treatment Plant

Our team operates and maintains the plant that turns Lough Talt’s raw water into clean, safe drinking water for approximately 13,000 people across South Sligo and East Mayo, reaching towns and villages including Tubbercurry, Ballymote, Coolaney, Achonry, Curry, Bunnanadden and Doocastle, among many others. It’s a supply with history: before an upgrade lifted a long-running boil water notice in 2020, the scheme had spent years on the EPA’s Remedial Action List. Day-to-day operation now is what keeps that compliance in place.

Source to Supply

Getting from lake to tap reliably takes more than treatment on paper. The plant treats up to 8 million litres of water a day using chloramination disinfection, making Lough Talt one of only two public water schemes in Ireland to use this process to control trihalomethane (THM) formation in the network. Our teams monitor that process around the clock, maintain the plant’s critical infrastructure, and respond in real time to changes in raw water conditions and demand, so that supply never becomes something a community has to think about.

Right now, somewhere between Tubbercurry and Kilmacteige, someone is filling a kettle without a second thought. That’s the job done right.

If you’d like to know what it takes to keep it that way, here’s where to start.

To discuss water treatment operations or long-term O&M performance, contact David Burke, Head of Operations & Maintenance: david.burke@coffeygroup.com