Just four see sewage plant unveiled

Thursday 13th October 2011, 1:00PM BST.

Wastewater operations manager Jon Holt with a model of the new Belle Greve sewage plant. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1188464)

A SCALE model of a new sewage treatment plant was unveiled to islanders last night.

But just four people went to the drop-in session about the project.

Guernsey Wastewater, overseen by Guernsey Water, is behind the £10m. project, which aims to update the Belle Greve site.

Water services director Andrew Redhead said the purpose of the drop-in was to keep islanders informed about the progress of the project, which is due to go before the States within a few months.

Rather than being troubled by the low-turnout, he was quite pleased.

‘It demonstrated that people are not concerned by the project,’ he said.

* Anyone concerned about the project can contact the Guernsey Water operational centre on 239500.

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Gsyboy

October 13, 2011 at 2:08 pm

The Low turnout has nothing to do with people not being concerned about the project but more to do with the apathy in this island at the moment which is getting worse due to current issues in this island.
The feeling is that no matter what you say, especially any criticism, it won’t change things or have any effect.
The general feeling is we are ignored anyway and all this openness is purely a PR exercise for the sake of it
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Ray

October 13, 2011 at 3:15 pm

My cousin was one of the four who attended the drop-in session

He thought it was crap

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SS

October 13, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Gsyboy.

Completely agree. To sum it up a bit quicker, the word I believe is “dictatorship”.

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David

October 13, 2011 at 4:21 pm

How was this “Drop in” Advertised ? I didnt know anything about it ! Usually I find these things are either daytime while most of us are working.. and advertised on the day on the radio.. too late to go.

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Mr G

October 13, 2011 at 5:07 pm

I still don’t understand why we are paying for this, all my waste water is fed to my cows.

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Roy Gueno

October 13, 2011 at 6:08 pm

Looks like egg boxes, washing up liquid bottles and sticky back plastic, doubtless a few handrails to view the sewage head out to sea. They have yet to control the pollution from fire fighting foam on the Airport, let alone have to decide which or how many of the three waste streams to use for sewage.

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soph

October 13, 2011 at 7:41 pm

Hit the nail on the head David!
~~ or ~~
Another flush down the loo?

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