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!