Regarding sewage treatment for the Boscastle, Bossiney, and Tintagel area. Let us not lose sight of what we are trying to achieve. We are trying to prevent South West Water dumping raw sewage into our seas. This is what is happening today.

After a long battle, over many years, we persuaded the powers that be to provide us with decent (secondary) treatment. SWW were originally proposing to build three (primary and screening) sewage treatment works in Bossiney, Tintagel and Boscastle. Now only one high quality works is proposed.

If the sewage treatment works goes ahead the quality of water in all of our beaches will be far better. This is not only better for locals but also better for tourism. A single plant will also give us a better chance of tertiary treatment in the future.

Some of us have worked long and hard for many years, gathering information, studying the legislation and technical papers, and presenting these facts to various enquiries. So far, two public enquiries have been won and raw sewage treatment has been upgraded to secondary treatment.

What a shame, in our opinion, that this hard work and our achievements have been brushed aside with a campaign of misinformation.

TAIST, The Boscastle Sewage Liaison Group, many parish, district, and county councillors and MPs have worked long and hard to find a solution to these difficult problems. We should be thanking these people, talking to them and working with them.

Until recently Tintagel and Forrabury and Minster were united in wanting (and contributing £1,400 towards) a joint site and it looked as if an amicable end was in sight. SWW has looked in detail at, and rejected, a huge number of sites including several that our groups have suggested.

The simple facts are:

The law dictates that we must have a sewage treatment works.

For many reasons, including lower CO2 emissions, one plant is far better than two or three.

If the proposed Trevalga site proves unacceptable the works will go somewhere else in this area of outstanding natural beauty. Another or several more protest groups will form.

It is not possible to find the ideal site. It doesn't exist — the best that can be achieved is to find a site that affects the least number of people.

There has been no local hidden agenda — just a lot of hard work to help improve our sea water quality.

Graham King, Hedley Kenning, Phillipa Bowers,

Terry Walsh, Sheila Chequers,Michael Chequers, Peter Steege, Rob Lloyd, John Vaughan,

Richard Martin, Cllr Martin Smith.