I contacted the EPA and the local council about some hazardous materials found on some of the SE beaches. From this the council has now contracted a cleaner company to clean up the SE beaches and will take a few weeks to be completed. I assume other beaches are in the same process.
There were tyres, TV sets old frigerators ,tree stumps and thousands upon thousand of bottles strewn over the beach for miles ... and the water is a murky
brown colour .It would seem that water quality will take a while to get back to normal. I have never seen the beach in such a sad state before.
Despite conditions lots of kiters and a few windsurfers at St Kilda on Sunday.
Get those Giardia tablets out boys :P
I sailed at Elwood tonight, apart from the brown colour the water is fine for windsurfing, I didnt see any drift wood or rubbish foating around and the beach had been raked.
I drove along the bay from Mordy to Altona today to a client's site and the water is still a bit brown, but does not look as bad as the last flooding. EPA are still stating the water quality is fair at some beaches and others good. Please check with the EPA website for your beach. Also check the water samples data to. This will give a better idea on what is happening and which beach is getting closer at being a good state.http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/BeachReport/default.asp
I did hear that the Carrum ponds had overflowed into the patto R.
Bonbeach Tv is in todays Age newspaper. Plus soem of beaches water quality levels. Looks like StKilda has got worse since the start of the week.
The Bonbeach TV made it into the Age newspaper today. See online article below.
www.theage.com.au/environment/sustainability/it-never-rains-but-it-plumes-20110209-1an33.html
