Authorities have blamed murky water at Mullaloo Beach on damage to a 'silt curtain' at the Ocean Reef Marina development.The local community wants the government to admit there's a problem and work with them to find a solution.
"There's a silt curtain which surrounds the marina, which stops sediment from going in and out while there's dredging and earthworks going on, and the float at the top of that silt curtain was damaged," she said."What we think has happened is even though boats and jet skis and the like aren't supposed to go into that area because it's not open to the public yet, we reckon that a boat probably went in and it has damaged the float.
The animal has been identified as an Antarctic fur seal and remains on the same part of the beach today."We quite often get sea lions along the beach … we see them there for hours, sometimes they'll stay a couple of days," he said."It's basically in the middle of a very, very ugly patch of what looks like an algal bloom.
"So, what better way to try and understand the problem and get straight down there, take some water samples and understand what's happening."In response to questions from the ABC, the Environment Minister Reece Whitby's office said DBCA had received reports of the fur seal at Mullaloo Beach earlier this week.
"All we're asking for is for government agencies to say something's wrong, let's all sit around the table and work it out. Let's not stay in radio-silence mode and just keep throwing up that this has tested OK and that has tested OK," he said.
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