INTERREG SWELL WW consultancy services

Tender description

The Shared Waters Enhancement and Loughs Legacy (SWELL) project is supported by the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. The SWELL project’s aim is to improve the water quality, within the shared waters of Carlingford Lough and Lough Foyle. Through strategic catchment investigations and modelling, the SWELL project is planned to deliver optimised, sustainable capital upgrades to wastewater assets. Preliminary solutions have been identified including works at Omeath in County Louth, and Lifford, Killea and Castlefinn in County Donegal; these are known as the “Primary Sites”, where the locations having the greatest negative impact on water quality – in advance of assessments confirming this. “Reserve Sites” at Carlingford, Carrigans and Muff have also been identified; these are back-up locations should the primary sites not prove to qualify. Together, the project will deliver, over both phases of the project Catchment investigations, Ecosystem modelling and Capital delivery of wastewater network and treatment projects.