The river fane flow regulation scheme: a case study in river environment management M F Garrick (Patrick J Tobin & Company Ltd, Galway, Rep. of Ireland)

The River Fane Scheme is a Low Flow Augmentation Scheme which depends on the development of Lough Muckno as a Storage Reservoir in order to supply the water demand of Dundalk, the Republic of Ireland’s sixth largest urban centre located in the North Eastern part of the Country. Water from Lough Muckno will supplement flow deficiency in the River Fane so as to provide the required flows at various points downstream and particularly at the Dundalk U.D.C. Intake at Stephenstown County Louth. The Scheme therefore has two centres of activity, the Headworks at Lough Muckno and the Intake-Treatment Works at Stephenstown and Cavan Hill, more than 20 km downstream.