Post on 12-Jan-2015
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Original Designs from within
Dublin City Council
Roy O’Donnell
Gully Manager
Drainage Division
From the Corpo to the Council...Cradle to the Grave
• 4th Generation O’Donnell
• Father worked for 47 years in Waterworks Main Laying
• Cleansing in 1991
• Drainage 2nd March 1992
Riverbus
Time Keeper / Record Keeper 10th Nov 1997– Phone Nos. on Card
• Gully Manager – 2nd Feb 2004
Gully Manager
• Manage cleaning of all gullies within DCC
• Manage cleaning of gully pipelines using Mini Jet high
pressure units
• Manage surveying of all gully pipelines cleaned
• Manage CCTV camera surveying van
• Manage Flood Zones / Priority List / Extra Attention List
Two Types of Gullies
Sealed Gully for
combined sewer
Pit Gully for surface
water sewer
Water level
to here
Everything Trying to Prevent This…
What Encourages Change?
•New job, New beginning, New attitudes.
•Better Management, Better Support, Better Outcome
-Business Plan
•Money too tight to mention…..Budget Rethink.
•Necessity, Health & Safety, Annoyance….
Walking the Solutions Out of Me
•Time to think…
•Time to design…
•Time to ask questions…
•Time to build / make…
•Time to trial…
•Time to involve…
Drainage, The Studio and Me
• New ideas welcomed
• Support network accessible
• Innovation brought to new heights in DCC
• Voice given to the Staff
• Drainage and The Studio mirrored support
• Expertise available on request
The Many Ideas…
The Money Saver
•Approx. 1300 Retro-Fits Needed
•Approx. Savings € 600,000 - € 800,000.
•First Time Joint Patent with DCC & Roy O’Donnell
•Marketing Potential in Ireland & United Kingdom
•Irish Application No.- 2012 / 0339
•UK Application No. - GB1213831.9
The Money Saver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZdg_j-ZgU
The Money Saver
•369 Already Retro-fitted.
•Potential Savings - € 250,000.
•Potential Marketing – Who Knows??
•Not DCC Expertise.
•Need like-minded people in other organisations to
help.
•Anyone that can help please contact us to help us
on our way.
The Many Ideas…
The Studio 2013…
Sorry!