Who's stuffed up our inlet ?

The Porirua Medical Officer of Health has "closed" the Pautahanui Inlet to users until further notice because of dangerous bacteria levels ! This is a serious business and no one has a clue who has caused this huge problem or what to do about it. There are 4 possible groups of suspects as befits any good conspiracy theory

A. Inlet users- these range from boaties, noisy jet skiers, and we gentle sailors and windsurfers plus a few shellfish collectors from time to time. Certainly those who transfer their craft from place to place may be introducing foreign bacteria but the numbers are really small- no I think these guys are probably Not Guilty.

B. Landowners - now here's a likely bunch- ranging from unscrupulous developers (Whitby has at least one !) dumping undesirable material into waterways, farmers trying to get the most yield by overdosing on fertilisers perhaps , road users on Grays Road and SH58 - perhaps some of the traffic accidents recently have contributed to nasty materials getting in there ? Well worth investigating but the horses may already have bolted.

C. Bio terrorists - we all know that around some of the Porirua villages are little hot beds of dissent, stirring up local issues and trying to create a name for something now that SH1 issues are no more to the fore, what would it take for one of them to obtain a culture of some nasty bacteria say from ESR's labs and drop it into various inlet streams ? Watch out for shady creatures poking around late at night or in the grey murk we now call summer !

or D. Perhaps this is a new ruse by some of our Councillors unhappy with the criticism of the Sports and Rec Centre cost blowout they are now looking for a new issue to divert attention to hoping that the Whitby and Camborne activists will spend their energies on this rather than probing the obscure accounting and governance practices of PCC.

Any other good theories ?