Beau Sejour flumes are coming down
HIGH maintenance costs and declining interest were the main reasons behind the flumes being removed from Beau Sejour, the Culture & Leisure minister has said.
Work to dismantle and remove the flumes, which first opened more than 20 years ago, began last week and will continue further next week.
Deputy Mike O'Hara, pictured, admitted there would be sadness for those who had good memories of using the flumes but insisted their removal had become a necessity.
A fundraising drive was undertaken some three-and-a-half years ago by sisters Kelly and Lynsey de Carteret to try to replace one of the flumes and Culture and Leisure suspended their original plans to remove the chutes to give them that opportunity, but their efforts were in vain.
'The maintenance costs were too high for them so we'd have to replace them instead,' Deputy O'Hara explained. 'Just to replace the smaller one would have been about £95,000.
'The sisters tried their best but it was a thankless task and we gave them a long time to sort it out but in the end they conceded that it wasn't possible. They are beyond useful repair so now is the time they have to come down.'
