Durban main beaches safe to use, ports still contaminated

Durban beaches are safe for the public to use with only the port of Durban suffering from sewage contamination, the eThekwini metro council said on Sunday.

He added that 20% of the port was contaminated by sewage, but that a sewage pump would be used at the harbour on Monday.Hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage was flowing into the port every hour. Diving operations, essential to the port's ship repair precinct, as well as all fishing in the Port of Durban was suspended.

It was reported that an internal Transnet letter circulated on Thursday said the City had taken out damaged pumps from the affected sewerage works, pending the arrival of spares.

kaveels There is still no independent assessment of this and no update on the metro website of water quality - which was in fact deemed poor even before the sewer problem (due to storms?)

kaveels Bullshit.

kaveels Shit everywhere, just like the streets.

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