plant to clean up emissions from the resort.

The South Shore hotel has come under pressure from Government officials concerned about untreated waste from Sonesta possibly hitting the beaches.

The hotel has been ordered by environmental health officers to install a sewage treatment plant.

Previous letters from Government to the hotel warned that the property was lucky not to have been prosecuted and guests contaminated from the discharge from an outfall pipe hundreds of yards from the shore.

Government hydro-geologist Mark Rowe said last year that the hotel had been ordered to put in a secondary sewage treatment plant.

There was a temporary relief from high readings of bacteria around the area after the hotel had installed a 250 foot extension to the outfall pipe, he said.

The Development Applications Board last week gave planning permission for a new sewage treatment plant at the Southampton hotel.

The hotel applied in 1999 for permission for a new 120,000-gallons-per-day treatment plant.

The design report then stated that partially treated waste water was discharged directly into the ocean from an eight inch pipe at Sinky Bay, but Government prohibits these discharges.

The system applied for then would grind solids from kitchen waste and grease and sewage traps into minute particles. A primary tank holding 30,000 gallons would hold the waste for six hours at a later stage before discharging it into three bore holes.

No details were available about the treatment plant in the current application.