Plant breakdown??...lol. That is raw sewage. Plain and simple.
Plant breakdown??...lol. That is raw sewage. Plain and simple.
Seeing that run off or whatever it was kept us out of the water. It was somewhat entertaining watching it move north while people got out of the water like a slow moving shark was coming toward them. Maybe tourists should be educated so they don't fear the runoff or dung.....
rob, no disrespect, but the same conditions require the same reply . . . i'm not talking about hear say, i'm talking about what i experienced first hand . . .Originally Posted by Rob
Sorry you are confused. The "plant breakdown" means plant material/foliage breakdown, not the water treatment plant. That is not raw sewage - it is just like tea leaves that produce the color of the tea. The water treatment plant is in full working condition thus there is no raw sewage. That is the plain and simple truth.
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Jitterbug.
I am talking first hand experience, I was there too. My reply was written in November 2012 based on what you and I both experienced in November 2012.
What you smelled was the rotting seaweed. It can produce an obnoxious odor. That smell would be there even if the river water hadnt been there. And if you remember correctly, the odor lasted for a few days after the water cleared.
So what you have done is to take two separate occurrences that happened simultaneously, the rotting seaweed and the river water and and came to the wrong conclusion. They are entirely two separate events and happened independently of each other.
People who witnessed this recent one as I did first hand all noted that there was no smell. That was because there was no rotting seaweed this time as we did not have rough seas to wash seaweed onto the beach. For your conclusion to be correct, there would have a horrible smell noted - which eyewitnesses said there was not. They experienced it first hand just as I did.
And I experienced both cases first hand.
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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.
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.
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Yes, I've read rjonsun's report in it's entirety, as well as researched other sources. I stand by my opinion.
So your swimming in it right Rob?Everything A OK right?Looks like you have had a lot of rain lately and the **** ponds have dumped into the river.The same thing happens in North America.It rains ,down the street drain, to the sewage treatment plant and if it can't handle the overflow it gets dumped into the river.Done.
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