Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion
Dr. Jenny Deakin:
We do see organic material come in from drained peatlands. It is particularly common where we have peatland soils. There are quite a number of peatland areas throughout the country, as the committee will have discussed at previous meetings. When peatland is drained, dissolved organic matter goes into the water column and reacts with chlorine to create THMs, which are a public health issue.
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