Water discolored

[gerryg123]

I believe Rob is right on this one. There is no way enough raw sewage to color a whole shoreline would be seeping onto the beaches of Negril.

[goldilocks]

Well, I don't live there (yet), but I have observed fuel spills on the river as well as numerous dead fish. It is a fact that there is a sewage treatment plant up river and I would never swim in that "river come down" water. (In fact, even if the water appears crystal clear it could still be contaminated with any number of things.) River clean up and sewage plant monitoring are necessary. Is there any testing of the water that is ongoing? Heavy rains + high season tourists = more monitoring. run gone to do more research....

[Rob]

Well, I don't live there (yet), but I have observed fuel spills on the river as well as numerous dead fish. It is a fact that there is a sewage treatment plant up river and I would never swim in that "river come down" water. (In fact, even if the water appears crystal clear it could still be contaminated with any number of things.) River clean up and sewage plant monitoring are necessary. Is there any testing of the water that is ongoing? Heavy rains + high season tourists = more monitoring. run gone to do more research....

Goldilocks,

Mike D has already answered this - the link he posted explains that Negril's water treatment plant is equal to how water is treated in first world countries and there is no raw sewage in the river.

Last year, rjonsun visited the Negril waste water treatment plant and wrote a trip report about it.

http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...ment-in-Negril

So, in Negril they treat waste water much the same way we do in our first-world countries. There is no raw sewage in the Negril river.

[goldilocks]

Yes, I've read rjonsun's report in it's entirety, as well as researched other sources. I stand by my opinion.

[Rob]

Dana1,

We have been getting much more rain than normal for this time of the year - it is usually dry season. But this is nothing compared to our real rainy seasons, which would dump as much rain in a couple days as we have gotten over the past few weeks. And it has been nothing at all like a tropical storm which dumps much more water.

It is all relative. Yes, there has been more rain than normal, but I dont think that there has been enough rain to have overflowed the treatment plant ponds. During rainy season we get much more rain and the treatment plant was designed with that in mind. You can google that information for yourself on the internet. It is a fact that the plant was designed with rainy season and tropical storms taken into consideration.

The river flowing into the sea happens because it is a river that feeds from the hills beyond the Great Morass and is filtered by that same morass, which gives it the darker color. Its a river, not a lake and flows into the sea as it has for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Hey, I got an idea. How about rather than produce only rumors and speculation - back up your statement with some facts. What is your proof that the treatment ponds have overflowed? Do you have any at all - or are you just making this up.

[St. Anthony's Kitchen]

I drive to MoBay and back quite often. I cross the river in Lucea which empties into the bay and the one as you enter St. James which empties into that bay. Every time it rains the bays are discolored--just like here. And we've been getting a lot of rain. Depending on the current the river water from the Negril River heads toward the west end and sometimes it heads down the beach. My brother lived in Galveston, TX, for years and I visited. We joked about the "brown caps." The Gulf Of Mexico receives the water which flows from "The Big Muddy," the Mississippi River. Because of the prevailing current the "discoloured" water heads West and towards Galveston so the Gulf there is often brownish. It ain't sewage! Stop that rumor! --Fadder Jim

[Muzikdoc]

I used to stay at that end of the beach alot..and I have seen this and been in it a number of times..It is def water Runoff from the river...It will not hurt you..(I mean I wouldn't drink it) but contact wont hurt you..it clears up very quickly. Sewage would sink to the bottom and stay there.
Fred Strip---the water at the RIU Club is in a cove where the water tends to sit, it doesnt get washed in and out with the waves so Algae is going to grow there..the algae won't hurt you either...

[Dana1]

Hey i got a idea.Maybe these peeps are also spreading rumors.I'll pass on the day trip to the $hit ponds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptQXyQzdVP8

[Rob]

A news video from 2012 in which the problems then were addressed and fixed back in 2012 is your proof that the treatment plant overflowed this past week? Are you joking or do you really have no proof at all and are simply making this up?

[Accompong]

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