THE chairman of Watchet Boat Owners’ Association claimed this week that communication between the three organisations involved in Watchet harbour’s mud problems had become “pretty appalling”.

Ray Ventura’s comments came as he resigned at chairman of the Watchet Mud Working Group, a role he has held since 2015.

“I have resigned because the group has failed to get the district council, Watchet Harbour Marina Company and the Onion Collective to work from the same page,” he told the Free Press.

“I have also resigned because as chair of the mud group, I have allowed it to be diverted from that primary objective and instead become involved in business plans and economic impacts which are not our responsibility but the responsibility of the district council.

“It is very clear after all this time that there is little or no collaboration between the three groups. They are working as individual operations with their own aims and objectives.

“The communication between the groups also appears to be pretty appalling. Depending on who you talk to, you get a different story and normally it’s a story that says that everyone else is to blame for the situation.”

But two of the groups said they could not agree with Mr Ventura’s views and maintained that a co-operative approach was the best way to tackle the harbour’s problems.

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