Following a recent meeting with Southern Water boss Ian McAulay, Bob Seely MP has written a follow-up letter to the water company asking them to set out a detailed timeline of their immediate investment plans on the Island.
Earlier this month politicians got together around the table at Southern Water’s sewage treatment plant in Sandown to discuss a number of matters, including why the Island’s waters and beaches are still being polluted with raw sewage.
Councillors Bacon, Andre, Jarman and Quigley joined Mr Seely in talking to Southern Water’s Area Manager for the Isle of Wight, Keith Herbert and other senior utility company officials – including its chief executive.
Now, Bob has said in his letter:
“I would be grateful if you could please provide a detailed timeline of your planned investment on the Island and in other areas that are currently draining into the Solent.
“In addition, I would be grateful if this could also be supplemented by an explanation as to your plans for further investment in the same areas in the medium- to long-term future, or when we might expect more details on this”.
Bob has said he wants the Island to become an area of best practice for water quality and has encouraged the water company to discuss further with him how this can be achieved.
He’s said:
“I am encouraged by what Southern Water say, but what I want to see is detailed plans followed up by actions and I want the Island to exhibit best practice when it comes to wastewater management.
“I am hopeful that Southern Water will continue to engage with me, and the IW Council, to update us on their plans. We will certainly be following what they do from here with interest to make sure they are held to account for their actions.”
All Southern Water’s plans will be up in the air while they are the subject of yet another sell-on, adding even more debt to be serviced from customer revenues, not to mention paying the recent multi-million pound fine (which should anyway have been levied on directors, not customers).
My money says Seely will be completely ignored.
Plans are simple. Despite a deluge of free rain for them and despite thousands more homes here all paying water bills, THEY will STILL put up or bills and we have to pay.
“politicians got together around the table at Southern Water’s sewage treatment plant in Sandown to discuss a number of matters, including why the Island’s waters and beaches are still being polluted with raw sewage.”
So did they find out why? Love to know.
All namby pamby in Bob Seeley’s approach he should be demanding to know their plan and their timeline costs and that they should compensate customers not further charge us to cover the costs of the plans and their fine let us face it our tourists along with islanders are out on the waters around the island swimming in sewage with all that harmful bacteria including virus’s like coronavirus effectively flushing covid into the sea when we have just spent 18 months trying to avoid it he should be holding the corporate to account not asking if you could maybe give us a clue if you possibly don’t mind ever so much please namby pamby tory approach.