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A motion will be
tabled at Donegal County Council today calling for
the local authority to scrap, once and for all,
plans for a sewage treatment plant at Carnargarve,
Moville.
Cllr. Padraig MacLochlainn will also call on
officials to undertake an immediate consultation
process to select a new site for the
Moville/Greencastle scheme.
"This motion is now the final opportunity for
elected members of Donegal County Council to do the
right thing and send this project back to the
drawing board. The Council Executive has created a
profound lack of trust over this issue," said Cllr.
MacLochlainn.
He said that, in 2000, the local authority undertook
a public consultation process in relation to the
progression of a sewerage scheme in Moville and
Greencastle.
He said the initiative was supposed to be a
"partnership arrangement" aimed at undoing the
damage previously created by the failed attempt to
build a sewerage scheme in the area in the early
1990s. On this occasion, the Council's proposals
contravened European environmental directives.
But the problem had, in recent years, been made
worse, said the Sinn Fein election candidate.
"When representatives of the local community in
Carnagarve and the surrounding town lands educated
me on the long, controversial and, frankly, shameful
history of this scheme after the January 2005
workshop that selected Carnagarve, I immediately
removed my consent to proceed. Since then, I have
waited patiently for a resolution to this injustice.
My patience has been exhausted.
"It is time to go back to the drawing board and
finally deliver the much needed sewerage scheme in
Moville and Greencastle in a spirit of genuine
partnership with the local community," he said.
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