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Waterford Co Council s Gerry Forde senior engineer and senior executive scientist Brendan Cooney with Minister Pippa Hackett at Thursday s meeting. / DAFM
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Senator Pippa Hackett met with farmers in Duncannon, Co Wexford, on Wednesday to congratulate them for their actions taken to safeguard the quality of waterways in the area.
The actions were undertaken as part of the Duncannon innovation project, a Department of Agriculture-funded initiative run in conjunction with Wexford County Council.
Speaking at the meeting, Minister Hackett voiced her appreciation of the farmers’ efforts over the last number of years.
Minister Hails Farmers’ Efforts to Reduce Pollution at Duncannon Beach
11th June 2021
File image of Duncannon Beach on Co Wexford
Credit: Ichabod Ipswich/Flickr
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett has congratulated a number of farmers in Duncannon, Co Wexford on improvements they have achieved in tackling water quality.
Over two-and-a-half years of the department-funded Duncannon Innovation Project, studies show bacterial counts in two streams which flow into the sea have fallen considerably while ecological assessments also show an increase in numbers of many pollution sensitive macroinvertebrate species
Speaking from Duncannon yesterday (Thursday 10 June), Minister Hackett said: “I am really proud of the contribution made by both the farmers and my department to improving the bacterial quality of the two coastal streams that flow onto the beach here.