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Happy Christmas residents and visitors!

Some homes are reporting frozen water supplies unfortunately. Westmeath County Council’s latest advisory states:

Westmeath County Council is maintaining an uninterrupted water supply to all its customers, however due to the unprecedented cold spell many householders are experiencing problems due to frozen water pipes. No shut offs of water mains have taken place & water is not frozen in public water mains.

Please contact a plumber before attempting to defrost frozen pipes.

If your water supply has frozen you should

• source water from your neighbours or
• go to a water standpipe using your own water containers.

NB – Water from Standpipes should be boiled before consumption

Westmeath County Council has provided & installed approximately 38 standpipes located throughout the county to ensure that members of the public have access to water supplies.
The closest standpipe to us is Raithin – at the entrance to estate.  If several houses are affected, let us know by commenting below or emailing info @ ashefield.com and we’ll ask  the council to open the standpipe close to the entrance of the estate, which was used last year.

Hope you all have an enjoyable Christmas and we look forward to your input and news in the year ahead.