Category Archives: Water

DAERA Consultation on Water Quality – A Critical Moment for the River Lagan

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has issued a consultation paper entitled [...]

A Warning We Should Not Ignore

From the Lagan to Belfast Lough: The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) [...]

Flooding on Quarterlands Road: When Surface Water and Sewage Are Part of the Same System

Once again, Quarterlands Road is flooding. The photographs above were taken recently at the section [...]

Council Reassurances Ring Hollow

Following up on our recent post on yet more flooding issues on the Quarterlands Road, [...]

Why Say No to the Quarterlands Development

Good Reasons The Quarterlands development (Planning Ref: LA05/2022/0033/F) raises legal, environmental and democratic concerns. It [...]

Why we wrote to… the Health Minister

Dear Minister Nesbitt, Re: Public Health Emergency – Untreated Sewage and Failing Wastewater InfrastructureI write [...]

The Untold Sewage Crisis at Drumbeg WwTW

Published by Quarterlands Group The residents of the Quarterlands Road area and surrounding communities are [...]

Why We Wrote to… The Ramsar Secretariat

A Call to Protect the Lagan Valley and Belfast Lough The Lagan Valley and Belfast [...]

Extrapolated Sewage Data

The Unseen Crisis: What We Learned from Extrapolated Sewage Data At the Quarterlands Group, we’ve [...]

Why YOU Must Object to the Blaris Project Development

Why You Must Object to the Blaris Project Before 7th February 2025 The proposed Blaris [...]