Visit 8th May 2025

Fifth Class visited the Lisglennon Water Treatment plant on the 8th May 2025. Sincere thanks to Pamela Bergin for all her assistance.

The Ballina Lisglennon water treatment plant serves a population of 15,500 people at a volume of 8,000m3/day and operates for 23 hours/day. A portion of the Ballina area is served by the Ballina Wherrew water treatment plant. The Lisglennon plant was constructed in mid-1980’s and includes the following treatment; coagulation with aluminium sulphate, clarification in 3 clarifiers, rapid gravity filtration in 3 filters, disinfection with chlorine gas and fluoridation.