Community Centre to benefit from services work

Although the KCC Water Services work currently under way in the Cattle Mart field is primarily to deal with issues related to building developments in Kilcullen over the last decade, it is also benefiting Kilcullen Community Centre, writes Brian Byrne.

The work involves laying a sewerage services pipeline from the Curragh Road to the pumping station which connects Kilcullen to the Osberstown Treatment Plant.

But the Community Centre will also be able to connect to it thanks to foresight in laying a line to the Curragh Road during the construction of the Community Playground and related works.

"Since the Centre was built more than 30 years ago, we have had to pump our waste to the town connection near the Garda Barracks," says the Centre's manager PJ Lydon. "That was both expensive and sometimes problematical. But now we'll have a normal connection to the services."

The current works were in the news recently when the Council found it had to re-route the line of the pipes in order to protect an oak tree estimated to be more than 200 years old.