Water discolored

[Ras Walleye]

This phenomenon occurs many places. My wife grew up in Oracabessa, St. Mary, east of Ocho Rios. When ever it would rain heavily "river come down". Why people assume or insist upon believing the worst, without any and despite contrary evidence, never ceases to amaze me.

[jamaicarob]

i was there when it happened, did not swim in it, no odor, i was on the beach at 7 a.m. the next morning, all gone, soon come

[Rob]

Kylake,

If you are truly interested, please contact the professionals at the links I posted.

Rob

[booger]

This phenomenon occurs many places. My wife grew up in Oracabessa, St. Mary, east of Ocho Rios. When ever it would rain heavily "river come down". Why people assume or insist upon believing the worst, without any and despite contrary evidence, never ceases to amaze me.

A simple google search provides several articles on this Ras, so not sure why you are amazed.

Here is an incredibly boring read:


http://coastecology.org/wp-content/u...oral-Reefs.pdf

And an older newspaper article:


http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...llution--again

If you read this and had no knowledge that the treatment plant was upgraded why would you think different. The power of the internet to influence one's thinking is remarkable.

When I saw the tannic water in early December it had a reddish hue to it. Maybe this is how Bloody Bay got it's name and it had nothing to do with whaling.

[rjonsun]

Workers at the wastewater treatment plant in Negril are the people that informed me that Montego Bay employees sample the plant weekly.
Also, consider this story. The wastewater treatment plant I work at is about a mile from the source of the stream we discharge into. We actually double the flow of the stream where we discharge. During high flows when our plant actually overflows we take fecal coliform readings above and below our outfall. Normally we are not allowed to put any chlorine into the stream, but during high flow events we are allowed and chlorinate the daylights out of our overflow. Fecal samples taken upstream of our plant often range in the 5000 to 8000 count. Mind you, this is only run off from roads and yards with in a mile of the plant. Because we chlorinate so heavily during these times, our downstream fecal counts are always lower than upstream. So runoff anywhere in the world will cause high fecal counts. That is why the Jersey shore will occasionally close beaches, not from the wastewater treatment plants but from run off from the streets.
When I checked the outfall of the Negril plant, my estimate would be that it was less than 1\20 of the river flow.
Regards,
Bob

[Ras Walleye]

There you go with facts again :-)

[patty_k]

natural ocean tides can also cause river water to flow into the sea.

[dash]

Sorry, it was me

[M&G Montreal]

Wow. We're getting re-runs! Didn't we have a major thread on this a few weeks back? Same story. Same rumours!

[Rob]

M&G - that is because it is the exact same thread - it was brought back up from March 1st... almost 30 days ago was the last post in this thread...