Why should we be the dumping ground for waste from other areas?

THE imposition of a mega sewage treatment plant to cater for a million people on the Donabate/Portrane Penninsula in Co Dublin is nothing short of a crime.

Donabate/Portrane has had more than its share through the years. We still remember the seagulls and the smell in the heyday of Balally dump. Many, including myself, have witnessed the seagulls having another source of food at the mouth of the small Portrane sewage treatment plant due to ongoing problems, and one could see the discolouration in the sea water around the mouth of the pipe from time to time.

At 600 metres out to sea we won’t see the colour of the water, but we will see the gulls and get the smell, as in Ringsend, while the areas creating the stinking mess go about their lives depositing their waste on us.