ka222 said...
Melb water again pumped raw sewage straight into the bay again last Thurs after all that rain... hardly any publicity this time?
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The public acknowledgment of raw sewage is fairly new but it is common knowledge that you don't go into the bay after heavy rain.
It used to be dog poo and oil muck off the roads. A couple of years ago it was admitted that some of the older suburbs have all sorts of illegal sewage connections into the storm water system.
What is inexcusable is that the EPA only tests the beaches a couple of times a week. They don't retest after rain so you can have a beach report on the web site that says the beach is clean when the water quality is actually very poor.
PS On my bike ride to work the other morning there was a SUP traffic jam around Elwood. This morning was dead glassy. I saw PTWoody's car but did not see any paddlers.
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