Construction Impacts

To facilitate site access, construction and deliveries, anticipate:

  • Road closures, detours and traffic management.

  • Noise, pollution and traffic congestion.

  • Land take and access road widening / straightening.

  • Abnormal loads – turbine delivery will likely involve about 10 loads per turbine using articulated transports. In addition, expect deliveries of transformers, cranes, earth movers, dumper trucks, excavators, pile drivers, compressors /pumps, and rock breakers that will clog the surrounding roads.

  • Deliveries of up to 30,000 cubic meters of concrete and filler materials to site would not be unexpected

  • New access road construction in Dungarvan village

  • Temporary removal fences, lighting and telecom poles and other street furniture. lowering of boundary walls to enable turbine section deliveries.

  • Removal of hedges and trees along the route.

  • Based on the Mayo wind farm, an estimate of up to 10,000 truck movements in the area is possible.

  • Construction of underground connections to the grid (and potentially pylons).

  • Human and animal / wildlife welfare issues.