The scheme is part of a pilot programme being undertaken by the national rural water monitoring committee in six locations. A range of new, small scale waste water collection and treatment systems will be tested. Construction work is expected to commence later this year.
One of the objectives of the pilot programme is to explore the potential for group sewerage schemes to extend domestic waste water services to households outside the immediate catchment of new collection systems. The systems are initially confined to the core areas of each of the locations involved. My Department does not have details of the collection system for Castletown-Geoghegan. It is more appropriate to ask Westmeath County Council for details.