Penn blasts gov’t as Long Swamp sewage station remains unused
Marlon Penn
Opposition Leader Marlon Penn has blasted the government over its failure to connect households to the Long Swamp sewage pumping station, despite celebrating the facility as a major achievement earlier this year.
Speaking on the NDP radio programme, Penn questioned the government’s ability to execute projects, claiming that not a single household has been connected to the station, which is intended to transport sewage from East End and Long Look to the treatment plant at Paraquita Bay.
“Ask the minister how many persons have been connected to that transfer station to send the sewage from that station to Paraquita Bay where the sewage treatment plant is. Not one person has been connected,” Penn stated.
“It’s about a plan. It’s about the inability to be able to execute,” he added.
The criticism comes after Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley and Communications and Works Minister Kye Rymer publicly celebrated the station’s commissioning in February 2026. At the ceremony, Dr Wheatley declared that the project demonstrated his administration was delivering on promises to residents after decades of delays.
“Today’s commissioning is proof that we are keeping that promise,” the Premier declared. Rymer also celebrated the achievement, telling residents the government was taking decisive action to eliminate longstanding sewage problems in their communities.
However, the government acknowledged at the time that household connections and additional testing were still required before the system could operate fully. Residents have been offered free household connections if they register before December 31, 2026.
Penn is now demanding answers about the delays. “Let’s get the homes connected. What is the hold-up to getting the homes connected?”
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This dude needs to get lost
Like someone blogged yesterday, is he a politician or a policeman. One thousand things going good is this country right now and he is going around to see if he finds one problem to come on the news complaining. This same guy had the money and opportunity to fix this same problem and he took the 8 million from the LL .EE sewage project and give it to make to put in the pier park project.
He need to police them more because they don’t know what heck they doing
He gave Mark his 8 million dollars
Marlon had no say. We want to publicly hear mark say that marlon knew.
Marlon gave away the 8 million dollars that was allocated to fix the sewage problem in his district. He gave it to mark vanterpool. Mark take it and use in his district because the clown didn’t think it was important to fix the stench in the 8th district. He’s now immune to the stench can’t tell stink from fresh.
Correction. action man took the sewerage money to build pier park which is making money and most if not all has already been paid back to central government. The tubby one they moved from finance know about it. It was marlon who stood up in house of assembly and chastised action man about it and told him to our it back