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Love Your Beach Campaign - Peacehaven

Calling All Peacehaven Waveriders

Click to enlargeDo you ride waves or bathe on the beach at Peacehaven, East Sussex during the summer months?

If so, then we require your help in getting this beach designated as an official EU bathing water.

Getting a beach classified as an 'EU bathing water' brings with it environmental improvements that make the beach cleaner and safer for everyone to use.

From May to September, beaches designated as bathing waters benefit from weekly water quality testing, improved litter management and better facilities that help the public enjoy their time spent at the beach.

Whilst some improvements to the sewerage infrastructure are already underway in the area, if we can persuade the Government that enough people use the Peacehaven beach for bathing and recreation and get it designated, we can put an end to the poor water quality the beach routinely experiences due to inadequate sewage treatment.

In the first instance we need to get the local authority to support an application to DEFRA, so we are asking waveriders to sign the online petition

We know that DEFRA are currently looking for new beaches that might be appropriate so it's important that we act fast on this. This is the best opportunity we will have for some time so we must seize it. Bathing water designation will protect your health as a waverider and Peacehaven's  waves from pollution in the future.

Unfortunately, because of a failure by the European Union's legal wordsmiths, the Directive does not specifically include 'recreational water users' within the term 'bathing', despite this group being scientifically more vulnerable to falling ill from poor water quality than traditional bathers. Ridiculous we know, but with that in mind we have to ensure that waveriders are also counted as bathers if we are to be in with a shout of getting the designation of Peacehaven.

To help us in our lobbying of the local authority, we'd like you to sign our online petition if you use the water at Peacehaven between the 15th of May and the 30th of September 2009.

Petition

To:

Mr Lindsay Frost,
Director of Planning and Environmental Services,
Lewes District Council,
PO Box 168,
Lewes,
East Sussex,
BN7 9FA

I Support the designation of Peacehaven Beach as an EU bathing water. I use the beach both as a bather and as a regularly during the May to September bathing season and would like to see this beach benefit from bathing water status to help better protect public health and the local environment.

I estimate I use Peacehaven times a week during the May to September period. 
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