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Marine Notice: Benthic Survey for Greater Dublin Drainage Project
The Department of Transport has been advised by Uisce Éireann (formerly Irish Water) that it will carry out a benthic survey from Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 September, subject to weather and operational constraints.
The survey will take place in the vicinity of the proposed Greater Dublin Drainage (GDD) outfall route and diffuser location, east of Portmarnock Beach and north of Ireland’s Eye.
Survey operations will be undertaken at eight sampling locations using the local work vessel Ros Áine (callsign EIZG5). The vessel will mobilise the scientific equipment from Howth and will operate onsite daily during daylight hours only.
Each sample site will be subjected to a seabed investigation where a sampler or dropdown camera will be in momentary contact with the seabed. Neither the equipment nor the vessel will be anchored to the seabed at any time.
The work vessel will display appropriate shapes and lights during operations and can be contacted via VHF Channel 16. All other marine traffic is requested to maintain a wide berth whilst operations are under way.
Coordinates and a map of the survey areas as well as contact details can be found in Marine Notice No 56 of 2023, attached below.
The Department of Transport has been advised by Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST) that benthic and geotechnical survey vessels will be deployed at the site of the proposed Sceirde Rocks Windfarm in north Galway Bay off southwestern Connemara.
The deployment will take place from this Saturday 29 July — as with the metocean survey previously reported on Afloat.ie — to the end of September, subject to weather and operational constraints.
The benthic survey will take place using the vessel Ocean Navigator (callsign EI018) which will operate in daylight hours. The geotechnical survey will take place using the vessels Geoquip Seehorn (callsign 5BSW) and Glomar Vantage (callsign HO3057) which will operate on a 24-hour basis.
Coordinates and a map of the deployment area as well as contact details can be found in Marine Notice No 47 of 2023, attached below.
