There has been a failure at the pump station that discharges “partially treated” sewage into the ocean via an outfall pipe in Camps Bay, resulting in the temporary closure of Camps Bay beach.
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Is the City of Cape Town really allowing our oceans to become unswimmable and unliveable by pumping billions of litres of sewage into it?
There’s no spreading your seeds so easily when the sea is shitty, that’s for sure.
While the City is probably doing its best under the circumstances, discharging sewage at three marine outfalls, two of them in Marine Protected Areas, is not acceptable.
When tested, some of Cape Town’s rivers and canals came up so dirty that they’re bordering on ‘untreated sewage’.