Please click on the link below and consider making a personal submission to the Environmental Protection Authority in regard to the EWL project. It is vital that they receive as many submissions as possible highlighting peoples' concerns and desired outcomes. Without your submissions the EWL project will likely continue just as specified and that is not acceptable. It is important also that you state what you like in the design, as it adds weight to keep this in if others are against it. If you are in support of Aotea Sea Scouts then the main points we would like you to make are as follows. 1. Aotea Sea Scouts social, environmental and operational impacts have not been assessed, and Aotea Sea Scouts will be severely impacted 2. Noise levels outside the Sea Scouts building have not been modeled and are expected to increase 3. Loss of access to Gloucester Park for the Sea Scouts removes a major activity area the group uses 4. Loss of parking and boat trailer maneuvering space for the Scouts is a problem 5. Loss of future development space for a boat shed, which was proposed for placement on Motorway reserve will be lost 6. No consideration of the need for restoration of the foreshore, and Government departments should be considering this in these projects according to the Waitangi Tribunal findings on the Manukua claim 7. Access for Aotea Sea Scouts Manukau Bridge members is being severely complicated, likely to cause these members to stop coming 8. No agreed plan is included for Aotea Sea Scouts either during or after construction 9. No re-evaluation of the Outstanding Natural Feature 46 (Gloucester Park Hopua Explosion Crater and Tuff) has been completed based on the fact that this feature will be cut in half. 10. The causeway removes the front on historic view of the building, considered to be a trademark view of the building for the group. It would be good if in your submissions you also back Aotea’s preferred solution, being to have a foreshore reclamation/restoration completed as part of the project, with the existing building moved to over a new foreshore maintaining the same aspect and association with the sea as that of the current location, and if in the event the building cannot be moved, for a purpose built replacement building to be provided over the new foreshore. There will also be likely many other aspects of the plan for you to comment on in your submission, however Aotea Sea Scouts have just had to concentrate on the direct impacts on the Sea Scouts. Thank you all for your support. Aotea Sea Scouts