Residents around Lough Funshinagh are experiencing 'mental torture' according to one local.
The embattled flood defence works have been stalled for a second time following a High Court order.
Environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment have received permission from the court for a judicial review of an order made by Roscommon County Council.
The order, made in October, called for the installation of a smaller temporary drainage plan, a version of which had already been refused by the high court a month previous.
Several homes and farms in South Roscommon are currently at risk from the lake with flooding season expected in early Spring.
Local resident Pádraig Beatty says the flooding of farmyards will cause more environmental damage than any drainage pipe:
