Attaboy ping pong!! Let me pat you on the back.
Attaboy ping pong!! Let me pat you on the back.
I read rjonsun's post and since I started this thread and have been away for about 24 hours I would like to say any of us can speculate what the coloration in the water is caused by tannic or sewage or a combination of both.
The only determining factor since there is a sewage facility up river, would be when these events occur if someone tested the water leaving the river and at the effected beach areas and posted the lab results for the public. It is not uncommon for beaches in the US or elsewhere to be closed for swimming if conditions of any kind pose a hygienic or safety danger to the public.
Is anyone doing this?? Do they come from Mobay and do testing and post a public notice?
"rjunson wrote: Finally, what does this all mean to the Negril River, the ocean, the reef and the swimmers? Good question. The workers at the plant had no knowledge of any effluent parameters or lab results. They said that someone came weekly from Montego Bay to collect samples. I noticed that there was no chlorine or disinfection at the point where the water enters the river. The pan system is supposed to disinfect, but I'm not sure to what extent. A fecal coliform would have to be taken to find out how well it is working. For instance, Ocean City, New Jersey has a maximum fecal coliform of 200. If a 200 count is found on any of the beaches they are sut down. At the plant I work at our maximum is also 200, however our twice a week samples average less than 5. I would have to do more research, but I don't think that the pans do much to lower phosphate (from soaps), ammonia or nitrates (from urine). In fact a byproduct of pans are the massive amounts of algae that they produce. If someone will do the research and find test results for: fecal coliform, pH, turbidity, Dissovled oxygen, Phosphates, Nitrates, Nitrites, and BOD, I will compare them to US standards to find out how well they are doing.
Regards,
Bob"
Last edited by kylake; 02-11-2014 at 08:05 PM.
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Good post Acc.
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Excellent post Accompong!
Why are some folks so argumentative & wanting to create drama where it doesn't exist.
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I know for a fact that there's pee in water. My bad.
Trust me, Folks, to say that it isn't sewage if it doesn't smell like sewage. I'm an expert because I used to work in the overflowing sewage capital of the world.
All the same, I still hope the murky river water will be gone by time I get to Negril next month.
Last edited by frankk; 02-11-2014 at 08:24 PM.
I am quoting from the journal I wrote back in 1973 while visiting Negril. Remember, there were only a handful of places to stay, no resorts, only a couple of restaurants and stores. There was only spotty water and electric and you had to go to Sav to change money. Negril only had a small population and most of them lived in Red Ground. There would be very little sewage problem because there were so few people. This is what I wrote:
"Sept 19 1973 ....at 11:30 I blew up my raft and floated to the 6 tall pine trees at the Sugar Company Limited. The water was pretty dirty so we walked down the beach maybe a mile. The dirty water was chasing us down the beach, so we split back to Red Ground."
"Friday September 21, 1973 When he got to the roundabout he said the water was too dirty. I went to the beach. It was brown, maybe 2 miles down the beach."
So long before there were thousands of tourist in Negril, the Negril river was occasionally making the ocean and beach area brown.
Regards., Bob
Yes but how many people were pooping in the river near Sheffield in those days? Thats the unknown
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