MINISTER John Gormley, Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, visited the Integrated Constructed Wetlands (ICW) project at Castle Leslie Estate.

This is the new environmentally friendly way of providing an effective, robust, economical and low maintenance system for the treatment of sewerage effluent from the village of Glaslough. In fundamental contrast to traditional sewerage treatment works designed to be cut-off from the public and wildlife, this ICW is located on the banks of the Mountain Water River, surrounded by woodland and demanding sensitive development in of landscape fit, biodiversity and habitat enhancement.

“We are honoured that Minister Gormley made time in his busy schedule to see the Integrated Wetlands project at the Estate. It is an important part of our development programme and it is great to see that a sewerage treatment works can be turned into a beautiful amenity that can be enjoyed by guests and visitors to the Estate,” commented Sammy Leslie.

“I would like to pay particular tribute to Dan Doody and his team in Monaghan County Council along with Dr Rory Harrington for their vision and foresight in what is a national flagship environmental project for waste management,” said Sammy Leslie.