All central beaches from the harbour mouth to the Umgeni river at the Blue Lagoon were closed yesterday afternoon because of unacceptable levels of E Coli
Ethan Campbell, a Grade 11 pupil at Westville Boys’ High, decided against entering the water with his surfboard after hearing the beach was closed.Veteran surfer Jean-Marc Tostee said the city needed to address the problem.
He had to call in the plumbers to his Rivertown business this week to attend to a problem that turned out to be on the municipal grid. Three weeks ago, the Independent on Saturday reported that oceanographer Lisa Gaustella suspected water to be polluted off Snake Park Beach, and wondered whether it wasn’t linked to a sewage leak in Sherwood. The next week, several children ‒ between 22 and 40 ‒ who had surfed off Battery Beach were reported to be ill. The parents of five spoke to the media.
Durbanites Against Plastic Pollution founder said if the city’s ageing and oversubscribed sewerage infrastructure was not overhauled and properly managed, the river, beach and bay water would become too polluted for recreational use within five years.“Teams are currently hard at work on a malfunctioning sewer pump station that is constantly vandalised for scrap metals and work is at an advanced stage to remedy the situation,” said eThekwini Municipal spokesperson Msawakhe Mayisela.
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