🏖️Durban residents can finally visit open beaches as water returns to acceptable E.Coli levels after ongoing sewage spills put a damper on holiday spirits. Durbanbeaches TheCitizenNews
With high temperatures being experienced throughout the province, Durban residents can confidently visit open beaches to cool down as water tested in the past week shows acceptable E.Coli levels.
The tests done by Talbot, which offers expertise in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater solutions across Africa, revealed that all Durban rivers that were tested for E.Coli ranged between 250 and 500, which was an acceptable level.However, the tests did reveal that the E. Coli levels sampled in the Umgeni River revealed alarming levels. All the tests conducted in the Northern Works, Kingfisher Canoe Club, and Riverside were above 500, which was a critical and hazardous level.
Durban-based environmental advocacy organisation Adopt-A-River said they hoped that the eThekwini Municipality would continue to make improvements to the sewerage infrastructure, which contributed to the shocking results in Durban rivers.
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