Lough Neagh
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Weather & Tides
Today - Thundery Showers
Maximum: 18C, Minimum: 13C
Wind: 8mph southerly, Visibility: Moderate, Pollution: Low, Sunrise: 06:27 BST, Sunset: 20:23 BST
Monday - Light Cloud
Maximum: 17C, Minimum: 12C
Wind: 15mph westerly, Visibility: Moderate, Pollution: Low, Sunrise: 06:29 BST, Sunset: 20:20 BST
Tuesday - Light Rain
Maximum: 19C, Minimum: 14C
Wind: 14mph south-westerly, Visibility: Good, Pollution: Low, Sunrise: 06:31 BST, Sunset: 20:18 BST
No tidal data is available for this location
Information
Craigavon
Craigavon (population 78,200) is a new town in northeast Armagh beside the southern shores of Lough Neagh. It encompasses Portadown, Lurgan and the central Brownlow area. It boasts several specialist business parks and is connected to Northern Irelands' highly developed STAR communications network.
Ameneties
The southern shores of Lough Neagh are nearby, and situated here are the Oxford Island National Nature Reserve, a marina, and the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre, which is an interprative centre for Lough Neagh.
Craigavon Watersport Centre is situated beside the lake.
Tel: +44 28 38342669.
Craigavon Golf & Ski Centre in Silverwood, Lurgan, has an outdoor artificial ski slope as well as golf and pitch & putt courses.
There are several public parks and leisure centres in the area.
There are three golf clubs: Lurgan Demesne (+44 28 38322087), Portadown (+44 28 38355356) and Silverwood in Lurgan (+44 28 38326606).
Transport
Belfast is 30 miles away on the M1. there are nine Ulsterbus buses a day travelling between Armagh and Belfast that stop in Portadown. The Belfast-Dublin train stops at Portadown and runs eight times a day. There is a more frequent train service serving Belfast from Portadown that also stops at Lurgan.
Useful Contacts
Craigavon Bus Station 028 38342511
Lurgan Train Station 028 38322052
Portadown Bus Station 028 38351422
Ulsterbus www.ulsterbus.co.uk
NIR Travel Shop 028 90230671
Lurgan RUC Station 028 38325144
Craigavon RUC Station 028 38325144
My daughter lives very close to Hartbeespoort Dam just north of Johannesburg , a huge dam , home to Pretoria Sailing club , which suffers constantly from both water hyacinth , and also more recently Green/blue algae blooms which have the same effect as the one you are presently experiencing.
They are in contact with Rhodes University Grahamstown in the EasternCape, South Africa, who have a renowned centre for biological control , and have been having some success recently in relation to problems of this sort .
If this is of help - their email is communications@ru.ac.za
I hope this might be of some help.
Best wishes, Pat Burgess , Donaghadee