WITH the summer holiday season at its peak, and Battle floats due to muster at the western end of Victoria Avenue in two days’ time, the absence of one unwelcome visitor from recent years has been conspicuous. Comparing a photograph of St Aubin’s Bay from this week with the same shot taken last summer shows […]
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Sea lettuce ‘harvest’ at 3,000 tonnes – and rising
THREE thousand tonnes of sea lettuce has been removed from St Aubin’s Bay so far this summer – more than three times the total for 2023. After one of the smallest “harvests” in recent memory last year, when only 870 tonnes were removed from the south coast bay, this year’s figure could come close to […]
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Minister: “Diminishing requirement” for historic marine lake
THE Government has said there is a “diminishing requirement” to restore the crumbling Victoria Marine Lake, despite renewed public interest in the historic bathing pool. The Infrastructure Minister made the comments in response to fresh calls to save the once-popular 1897 attraction, which has lain unused since a 10-metre hole appeared in its retaining wall […]
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Ministers respond to Marine Lake petition
QUESTIONS remain over whether there is sufficient demand to justify restoring the Victoria Marine Lake with taxpayers’ money, ministers have said. A petition calling on the government to restore and maintain the pool in St Aubin’s Bay received more than 1,400 signatures – prompting a ministerial response. The government response detailed how the 128-year-old pool […]
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Bay businesses hope sea lettuce plan will pay off
BUSINESSES along St Aubin’s Bay are hopeful that sea lettuce will not blight the beach this summer – after a trial scheme used by the Infrastructure Department last year successfully put it to use. Pictures taken by the JEP this week have shown a dramatic reduction in the amount of greenery lining the shores of […]
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Repairs to Jersey's Victoria Marine Lake 'could cost millions'
DOUBTS have been cast over the future of the Victoria Marine Lake – ten years after more than £250,000 was spent on its restoration. Dating from 1897, the enclosed bathing pool alongside the causeway to Elizabeth Castle has been out of action for some time because of damage caused by the tide to the marine […]
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Green bay is here to stay, but tech will help ‘limit nuisance weed’, says minister
SEA lettuce ‘will always be present’ on the Island’s shoreline, according to the Environment Minister. Deputy Jonathan Renouf said the issue was ‘highly complex’ but that it was hoped that Jersey’s new wastewater treatment works could help reduce nitrate run-off, which contributes to the greenery that regularly blights St Aubin’s Bay in summer. He said: […]
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New waste-water plant ‘will reduce sea lettuce’
REPLACING the waste-water treatment works at Bellozanne in three years’ time will help to reduce the build-up of sea lettuce in St Aubin’s Bay, according to the Environment Minister.
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Traditional use offers solution to modern sea lettuce problem
ALTHOUGH it is viewed as a nuisance which blights St Aubin’s Bay, sea lettuce has now been assigned a purpose and is being used in farming in increasing quantities.
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La Collette may have to shut its gates to hazardous waste
THE prospect that all asbestos removal, construction on contaminated land and clinical-waste disposal could grind to a halt tomorrow is the result of poor government planning over decades, an environmental campaign group has said. SOS Jersey – which has been monitoring contamination levels around Jersey’s coastline for more than 25 years – argues that the […]
