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Name: Paul Aubert
I recently had my applicaon to connect to the public sewer in Trinity rejected, and was awaing this "strategy" with opmism that the Government was finally on course to address the capacity issues with the public sewer.
Unfortunately, 5 cups of tea and 2 packets of biscuits later (it's just shy of 200 pages) I'm absolutely none the wiser as to what the soluon is and how long I can expect to wait before my family can can "enjoy" what can only be described as basic public infrastructure.
If the conclusions are anything to go by then am I right in thinking there are no material improvements planned over the next ten years or so? The execuve summary was equally as vague, essenally saying "it's going to take a long me and a lot of money to sort this out". In fact, the enre document is ambiguous and clear on the problems, but opaque and non commital on soluons.
I've writen numerous leters to Infrastructure and senior policians raising these issues and concerns and been fed a prety consistent party line of "we recongise there is a problem. Apologies for the inconvenience".
The Infrastructure Minister, obviously preoccupied with polical manoeuvring, hasn't even had the decency to respond. I'd encourage people to read my correspondence with the Infrastructure department on this mater for a "warts and all" account of how poorly this situaon is being managed.
What I find uterly appalling in this so-called strategy is the disregard for people currently affected by the Island's inadequate infrastructure. 1 in 4 houses in Trinity are not connected to the mains public sewer and I know for a fact there are many families who find themselves in a similar situaon to me. There's no menon of addressing our predicament, only accommodang ne w development.
One final point to conclude on; aer having my applicaon to connect to the sewer rejected and told that all other applicaons in Trinity had also been rejected over the last year, I submited a freedom of informaon request for record s of all applicaons made to connect to the public sewer over the last couple of years, as I was naturally scepcal. I was absolutely flabbergasted by the response; "sorry we don't keep these records". And that was the end of the mater.
I cannot for one minute believe there are no records kept. I'd maybe expect this from somewhere like Russia or North Korea, but it is wholly unacceptable and frankly incompetent if that is in fact the case. How on earth can you hold people and departments to account? The cynic in me tells me it's convenient for such records not to exist.
Again, should anybody want to obtain my leters on this mater or wish to engage in further discussion, please feel free to drop me a line.
Regards, Paul