We need to start experiencing the joy of being both embedded in community and connected to the natural world.

Helena Norberg-Hodge


Economic prosperity must go hand in hand with social cohesion and ecological sustainability

Mikhail Gorbachev






Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The 2013/14 Hermanus Lagoon water samples published for the first time by HERMANUS UNPUBLISHED


        The unpublished Hermanus Lagoon water samples 

 2013/14 Overstrand municipality water sampling records show the horrifying facts of continuing sewage pollution in the Hermanus Lagoon 

Some of the recordings show extremely high levels of contamination, in some cases 2000 times over the 185 cfu/per 100ml standard guideline for Intestinal enteroccoci samples.

 Hermanus Yacht Club 
                                       December 2013   Enteroccoci     5200 cfu/ per 100ml
                                       January 2014       Enteroccoci     1200 cfu/ per 100ml 

Prawn Flats                    
                                        December 2013   Enteroccoci    3100 cfu/ per 100ml 
                                        January  2014      Enteroccoci    1370 cfu/ per 100ml

Stanford
                         Kings Street Jetty
                                                
                                      December 2013    Enteroccoci    1100 cfu/ per 100ml
                   

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