River Lee

In November to December 2009 the river flooded, inflicting the worst damage on the City of Cork for over 800 years. The Lee Water Station was forced to shut down after being submerged under 20ft of water, and resulted in 40% of Cork Ciry (50,000 people) being without running water. [3]

UCC was also flooded badly, resulting in lectures being canceled throughout the week.[4] There was severe damage to their newly built IT building (The Western Gateway Building) situated next to the river. The Western Gateway Building's basement was completely flooded, damaging the plant room and servers, and a 300 seat auditorium was flooded to near ceiling height.[5]

To prevent further flooding, the ESB made a controversial decision to release water from the Inniscarra hydro-electric dam. This released 535 tonnes of water per second into the already flooded river, raising the flood to 2ft in the City's centre. ESB insisted this was an essential move, and if water had not been released, the flooding would have been much worse.

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Oceans by Holly and Roisin

Oceans

There are oceans all around the world. Big ones, small ones, broad ones and narrow ones. The ocean is a continuous body of saltwater that covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Ocean currents govern the world's weather and churn a kaleidoscope of life. Humans depend on these teeming waters for comfort and survival, but global warming and overfishing threaten to leave the ocean agitated and empty.

John and Edward - Ice Ice Baby

Hudson River by Cormac and Cian.

The Hudson River is a 315 mile long river that flows from north to south through estern New York.The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman who was sailing for the Dutch east India Company, who explored it in 1609. Early Eoraipean settlment clutered around the Hudson. The area inspired The Hudson River school of painting, an American pastoral style.

There was a terrible plane crash at the Hudson a while back, heres a picture enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Cormac and Cian

Carsten Holler's slide at Tate Modern

Oom Pah Pah

Rinne muid an ceol seo inniú, agus bhí sé iontach! Is amhrán é ón scannán 'Oliver'.

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Molly Malone

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