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Appropriate Assessment Report Assessment of the likely effects of the installation of submarine electricity power cables between Moneypoint, Co. Clare and Glencloosagh Bay, Co. Kerry on the integrity of the Lower River Shannon SAC and River Shannon and River Fergus SPA Project Description: As part of the ongoing national transmission reinforcement project Eirgrid propose to develop 2 High Voltage submarine electricity circuits crossing the Shannon estuary connecting the transmission system at the Moneypoint Generation Station in Co. Clare to the transmission system adjacent to Glencloosagh Bay in Co. Kerry along the route shown on Drawing No. 231538 02E 033 submitted by Eirgrid. Each circuit would comprise of 4 cables, 3 operational and one spare phase. It is proposed that 1 cable circuit would be operated at 220kV and be installed in 2013. A second circuit would be operated at 440kV and it is intended that this would be installed in 2014. The proposed cable route across the foreshore is approximately 2.8 Km long and the deepest point along the route is approximately 60m. The total area of foreshore within the cable corridor would be 51.23 hectares. The cables will be installed using a post-lay burial water jetting system and it is intended to bury the cable along the proposed route to a preferred depth of 1.5m below the seabed where the seabed conditions and local geology allows. Where burial is not possible the cable would be placed on the seabed and protected using rock armour or cable mattresses. Each cable would be placed in a separate trench 20 - 25m from one another. The cables will be brought ashore, across the intertidal zone, in 8 individual trenches and will be connected to a terrestrial cable circuit at 2 No. individual jointing bays situated above the high water mark, one at each landfall site, as shown on Drawing No. 231538 02E 030. In the intertidal area the cable trench would be approximately 0.6 wide and 1 – 1.5m deep. Cable laying