Water discolored

[bigga]

Thats just great!! Arriving tomorrow

[kaycee]

http://rjrnewsonline.com/local/nepa-...iver-pollution



Sooo ummm, yeah. I stick to believing it's sewage.

[chris55]

Ugh...

[Bluez]

Yikes !!!

[TizzyATX]

Noticed it at Llantrissant one evening when we were there in Dec. No smell, just discoloration, but looked nasty enough to not swim in it. Anyways we were told it was run off from the river due to rains. Whatever it was, the water was clear the next morning when I woke up.

[groove16]

I have seen it like that in 2010....no smell, looked like the river water to me.....

[Fred Stripe]

When I walked down the beach to the town,,the local stopped me at the river and said do NOT walk in that water,it is dirty,go around to the bridge????????

[Flipadelphia26]

http://rjrnewsonline.com/local/nepa-...iver-pollution



Sooo ummm, yeah. I stick to believing it's sewage.

Fri February 3, 2012

The National Environment & Planning Agency, NEPA, says it's investigations of the pollution incident in the South Negril River have identified the likely cause to be sewage effluent.

The agency conducted an investigation Thursday after it received reports that there was evidence of the river being polluted.

The investigations also followed a protest staged by fishermen in the area earlier Thursday.

NEPA says its Enforcement Officers visited the area and identified the source of the pollution at the sewage pipe from the National Water Commission's Sewage Treatment Plant in Sheffield, Westmoreland.

The Manager of the Enforcement Branch at NEPA has brought the matter to the attention of the Commission and mandated that the malfunctioning system be rectified within 24 hours.

The agency has also collected water samples along the river for laboratory analysis.

In the meantime, residents and especially fishermen are being asked to avoid using the area

The article is a year old. So who knows if they fixed the cause or not.

[St. Anthony's Kitchen]

i notice that no jamaicans swim in the ocean when this occurs . . . bnewb, do you swim while the water is in that condition?

JitterBug, this is what I've heard as well.... it's due to the river, especially when heavy rains are happening.

St. Anthony's Kitchen

[Rob]

Did anyone notice that the water was very discolored at Coco La Palm beach north towards the river yesterday?
I wonder what caused this? We first saw it on their webcam but here is a picture taken yesterday by someone at Coco.
http://negril.com/forum/attachment.p...&thumb=1&stc=1

This is an absolutely normal and necessary occurrence after heavy rains. The South Negril River, which is dark in color because of the plant life in the morass has been credited for the naming of Negril. One of the theories of the origin of the name "Negril" is because when the Spanish in the 1500's named Negril, it was for the Spanish word for black.