River Alerts is a system that aims to give Irish kayakers a warning about dangers on rivers or anything related (river warnings). River Alerts also uses posts from Irishfreestyle.com (river warnings).The system aims to accessible from anywhere, via mobile phone internet (alerts.irishwhitewater.com), SMS texts, RSS and internet.
To spread river alerts and to make them even more accessible, river alerts can be embedded on any website, viewed on any phone.
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Palmerstown Weir - 30/06/09 Folks,
Just a warning that there is some damage to the Palmerstown Weir on the Liffey, which all paddlers should be aware of. At the bottom of the weir, on the apex of the flood pan, some concrete has broken away leaving a hole and exposing some structural steel work for the weir.
Liffey, Dublin - Girl Drowned by Local - 26/06/2009 16 year old drowned at Wrens Nest weir. Not the first drowning at the Weir. People seem to forget how dangerous it is. There are logs caught in the small falls far river right beside the wall and metal gates into the mill race. It is only 2 meters wide and about a 7-9ft drop If a beginner was to capsize above the Weir at river right and swam chances are they could be sucked over the fall. Alot of water gets directed down it due to the mill race wall above the weir at river right. Keep beginners to the left. It is not the first to be drowned at Wrens.
The Laney, Cork - Trees down across the Laney by DazL - 22/05/2009 The Laney River , Macroom, Cork. Trees down across the Laney reaching right across the River, in low water can be passed under but in high water can pose an safety hazzard
Tree on Dargle Boulder Garden - 18/05/09 Tree down at the entry to right hand channel of the boulder garden on the Dargle (after short gorge section).
Tis pretty small so will probably move after the next bit of water (could even be gone already).
Its possible to run the left channel and then skip back across right halfway down, but running all left in low to med water would not be desireable.
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