Representation by EarthQuakers (EarthQuakers)
- Date submitted
- 18 July 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant Relocation CWWTPR 17th July2023 Save Honey Hill EarthQuakers strongly object to the relocation 1.5 km east of current Cowley/Milton Road location, with tunnel under the Cam, for £227 million of future tax-payers' money when the current plant will last till 2050 as it was refurbished in 2015 costing the public purse £25million. In a cost of living Crisis, STOP wastage. Create real jobs to stop sewage leakage, not increases in CEO bonuses and shareholder dividends. In a Climate Emergency, make do and mend, be close to the earth, be humble. A floodlit eastern Gateway approach to Cambridge with "Bund" propped up by 20m high "Digesters" will make a ridiculous 'Tourist Attraction' and a totally unnecessary impact, scarring the Green Belt. This Vanity project is utterly wrong. For Fenland Villages, for Quy and Wicken Fen, in times of flood and drought, prepare to mitigate the high risk of groundwater contamination; don't deliberately cause fresh harm to the Principle Chalk Aquifer by crushing it with heavy Infrastructure. Leave Honey Hill as is. In times of food insecurity and fragile supply chain failures experienced during Covid and since War in Ukraine, mitigate the expense of import/export freight using local fertile agricultural land to 'grow our own'. Don't suffocate the earth with concrete + tarmac + 140 HGV sludge lorry movements per day. Please listen to the Stop Honey Hill Song which says it all explicitly! For EarthQuakers Ruth Lambert