From Patrick Cooper.
I write in the light of the recent world energy day ‘turn off the lights for an hour’ initiative and other articles I have read lately in the JEP with regards to proposals to remove and/or switch off the string of perimeter lighting that runs around St Aubin’s Bay.
As I was recently walking along the seafront at St Aubin I noticed a significant amount of water flowing out of several drain outlets and into the sea. This struck me as being wasteful.
Yes, we may have enough water, for now, in our reservoirs, but as a resource flowing water has other applications, notably the potential to produce hydro-electricity. As at least one of these stream outflows was once used to power a watermill, further upstream. Surely it should be possible to harness this ‘waste’ water supply to produce enough electricity to at least power the strip of lights that run along St Aubin’s Bay.
I’m sure this should come under the Transport and Technical Services department initiative of ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ and result in a clean/green solution to powering the seafront lights and possibly public buildings such as Elizabeth Castle, St Aubin’s Fort and Fort Regent.
Dorian,
Rue Gombrette,
St John.
