Today is D-Day for a council responsible for dangerous mine features on its beach where a school girl died.
Perranzabuloe Parish Council (PPC) has until the end of today to make safe three dangerous mine features on Perranporth beach or risk being prosecuted.
It was ordered to carry out the work following a concerted campaign by the mother of school girl Eleanor Clarke, who fell to her death while exploring a mine adit on the beach in 2010.
The West Briton launched its One Life Too Many campaign supporting the family's call for action to make these most dangerous mine features safe, especially for unsuspecting visitors unaware of its mining heritage.
Kevin Brader, Cornwall Council's senior environmental health officer, was due to inspect the site today to see whether the work has been completed.
He said it would then consider what further action it would take, renewing its warning that the council could be prosecuted for failing to comply with the order.
His department imposed an abatement notice on the smaller authority in November calling on them to install steel grilles at hazardous mine openings on the beach.
It followed a request by solicitors acting for Nin Clarke, Eleanor's mother, who claimed the features were a statutory nuisance and posed a serious risk to beach goers.
The PPC had refused to install the grilles and lodged an appeal.
Following months of legal wrangling and several hearings at Truro Magistrates Court it finally withdrew its appeal and agreed to carry out the work.
During one hearing District Judge Baker castigated the PPC for not acting sooner to deal with the mining perils saying it would have been cheaper to do the work than pursue its legal action.
The parish council's chairman, Linda Higgins said it had yet to see the lawyer's final bill, but that the specialist work to fit the three grilles was likely to cost in excess of £9,000.
It has admitted that it is unlikely to meet today's deadline saying it had called in specialist engineers to measure the openings and fabricate the grilles for two of the features.
It had yet to decide how it would install a grill at the third; a former leat system with a 12 metre tunnel, saying it was a challenging job.
Mr Brader said today's deadline was imposed as a measure to ensure the work was completed ahead of next week's school holiday.
He defended its decision to take enforcement action after seeing a shocking confidential report, commissioned by PPC last year, into the mining perils on Perranporth beach.
Cornwall Consultants Ltd highlighted a top ten list of dangerous features that it said posed a serious risk to visitors on the beach.
Two of the features are almost identical to the one where Eleanor died and have vertical shafts that drop three metres in one and five metres in the other.
Both contained graffiti and glow sticks showing people had entered them.
The third feature is a former leat system that contains a 12 metre tunnel which is accessible from Droskyn beach and leads to a seven metre drop onto rocks below.
