Excellent post Accompong!
Why are some folks so argumentative & wanting to create drama where it doesn't exist.
Excellent post Accompong!
Why are some folks so argumentative & wanting to create drama where it doesn't exist.
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I propose a solution to this back-and-forth "is it or isn't it" discussion.
How about if we all (at least those who care) put up a dollar and have a water testing kit purchased and have someone take a sample.
If it comes out to be "crap" - then post that as a fact.
If it comes out to be "pee" - then post that as a fact.
If it comes out (as Rob stated) - then let's post that result and call it a "fact" for all time to come.
You can Google "water test results for Negril River" which I just did and get nada, zip, nothing of consequence. But, in the meantime lets put it in the "things to do tomorrow" file drawer before we can actually fill in the blanks and solve this non-Agatha Christy worthy whodunit.
Just a piece of levity to brighten up you otherwise boring day spent on the computer.
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I know for a fact that there's pee in water. My bad.
Testing and publicly posting. We must have been posting at almost the same time. But should this not be covered by someone besides the tourist, like Negril tourism or Jamaica tourism commissions?Originally Posted by Accompong
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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
This is the real thing in Kandahar, Afghan!
Yes but how many people were pooping in the river near Sheffield in those days? Thats the unknown
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It's honestly not bad. A lot of good bacteria decomposes sewage very quickly and our noses are very very good at detecting things like that. Where do you suppose all the sewage goes from all those resorts on the beach?
Jackie and I didn't know there was a toilet at sunny side until this most recent trip.
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