{"id":423853,"date":"2026-04-29T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:04:11","slug":"cost-of-galway-flood-defences-rises-by-60-to-e80-million-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423853\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Galway flood defences rises by 60% to \u20ac80 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The estimated cost of new flood defences in Galway has increased to \u20ac80 million, as the timeframe for completion of the project has been further extended.<\/p>\n<p>The 60% increase in costs has been attributed to the scale of the measures involved and the impact of inflation in the construction sector.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now envisaged that construction work on Corrib go C\u00f3sta\/Galway Flood Relief scheme would not finish until mid 2033.<\/p>\n<p>RTE is reporting that Planners say the defences will be technically viable, environmentally sustainable and will integrate into the character and heritage of the city.<\/p>\n<p>They would comprise a total of 6.5 kilometres of flood defence walls, along with 1.4 kilometres of earth embankments and ground raising measures.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 50 flood gates and eight surface water pumping stations also form part of the latest designs to be presented to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cemerging preferred scheme\u201d is being outlined at a series of meetings in the city over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The estimated cost of new flood defences in Galway has increased to \u20ac80 million, as the timeframe for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-423853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}