A total of three submissions were made to An Bord Pleanála in relation to an interim flood relief scheme in south Roscommon.
The proposed works by Roscommon County Council will see water removed from Lough Funshinagh by a temporary pipeline.
The planned interim flood relief scheme would see water discharged to the Cross River in the townland of Carrick.
Three observations were submitted to An Bord Pleanála in relation to the planning application.
The submissions were made by the Development Applications Unit, Inland Fisheries Ireland, and Ballyforan resident Rose Burke.
Inland Fisheries Ireland's observation included reference to the pumping methods that will be implemented.
It said it was satisfied that pumping would cease when a minimum water level of 67.5 metres was reached.
It recommended the use of 10mm screens to prevent fish entrainment and said these must be inspected daily.
Inland Fisheries also commented on the Construction Environmental Management Plan for the project.
It said all works should adhere to the body's guideline documents on road construction.
It also said it should be contacted without delay should any issue arise during construction.
Ballyforan resident Rose Burke was critical of the council's previous handling of flooding at the turlough.
She claimed extensive borehole drilling in the 1990s could not be discounted as a reason why the turlough could now not reset.
In her submission, she said Lough Funshinagh and the community had been neglected by Roscommon County Council.
She said the local authority had been given plenty of warning prior to the flooding events of 2015 and 2016.
Ms Burke also questioned why the karst landscape in south Roscommon hadn't been studied more closely.
She claims the subsurface drainage network changed long before 2015 and that the exceptional rainfall of that year merely brought forward a crisis that would have happened even with normal rainfall amounts.
She also made the claim that definitive expert conclusions had been based on entirely fictitious premise.
Shannonside FM has approached Roscommon County Council for comment regarding these observations.
