The Harbour Commissioners say agencies will have to work together to get funding and permits.
There is hope a solution is "within grasp" to stop a marina's water turning brown, the harbour commissioners' chief executive has said.A meeting on Friday called by the area's new MP Josh MacAlister with local authorities, regulators and stakeholders, aimed to talk about a permanent solution.
Investigations to find the source of the problem started in 2023, with tests carried out at a railway tunnel to see if water from old mine workings was entering a tunnel nearby and then flowing to the harbour culvert.The meeting included Whitehaven Town Council, Northern Rail, the Environment Agency, Highways England, Network Rail and the Coal Authority and followed on from a meeting in March, when all authorities agreed to work to resolve the problem.
She said: "From a community perspective there is a massive amount of frustration, because I haven't been able to come away today with a categorical answer for the community of Whitehaven to say our harbour is going to be clean within X period. She added Labour's Mr MacAlister had pledged to "rattle lots of cages" to get answers around how to overcome obstacles.Authorities and agencies would have to come together to find the funding
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