I contacted the EPA and the local council about some hazardous materials found on some of the SE beaches. From this the council has now contracted a cleaner company to clean up the SE beaches and will take a few weeks to be completed. I assume other beaches are in the same process.

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WindRider said...

I contacted the EPA and the local council about some hazardous materials found on some of the SE beaches. From this the council has now contracted a cleaner company to clean up the SE beaches and will take a few weeks to be completed. I assume other beaches are in the same process.

We should keep an eye on the water quality too. The last EPA reading was 31 January, will be interesting to see how the latest one goes.

There were tyres, TV sets old frigerators ,tree stumps and thousands upon thousand of bottles strewn over the beach for miles ... and the water is a murky
brown colour .It would seem that water quality will take a while to get back to normal. I have never seen the beach in such a sad state before.

Despite conditions lots of kiters and a few windsurfers at St Kilda on Sunday.

Get those Giardia tablets out boys :P

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Here is teh EPA link for the beach report. The last post was today.

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/beachreport/

Thanks Stephen, Looks Beaumaris is reasonably clean, let's hope for some westerly or easterly at Ricketts South. Surprisingly the rest is close to acceptable around 400, with Mentone, Aspendale and Bonno needing some more time to recover. Even Pookipa was within limits.

I sailed at Elwood tonight, apart from the brown colour the water is fine for windsurfing, I didnt see any drift wood or rubbish foating around and the beach had been raked.

Water quality still an issue.....











This little fella was caught at Elwood today!

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Bondalucci said...

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This little fella was caught at Elwood today!

Was down at Dendy St this morning with the mut - she partially ate a tasty half decayed fish just like this. Beach has been cleaned up pretty well though and the SLSC kids were doing their drills in the shallows when I went for my run this evening. Still pretty murky though - although I'm now the proud owner of a spanking new Sherrin that washed up. Thing is, I haven't got a clue how to bounce it...

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Bondalucci said...

Water quality still an issue.....









This little fella was caught at Elwood today!

Was down at Dendy St this morning with the mut - she partially ate a tasty half decayed fish just like this. Beach has been cleaned up pretty well though and the SLSC kids were doing their drills in the shallows when I went for my run this evening. Still pretty murky though - although I'm now the proud owner of a spanking new Sherrin that washed up. Thing is, I haven't got a clue how to bounce it...

It probably won't bounce well with all the lead in it.

I drove along the bay from Mordy to Altona today to a client's site and the water is still a bit brown, but does not look as bad as the last flooding. EPA are still stating the water quality is fair at some beaches and others good. Please check with the EPA website for your beach. Also check the water samples data to. This will give a better idea on what is happening and which beach is getting closer at being a good state.

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/BeachReport/default.asp

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I drove along the bay from Mordy to Altona today to a client's site and the water is still a bit brown, but does not look as bad as the last flooding. EPA are still stating the water quality is fair at some beaches and others good. Please check with the EPA website for your beach. Also check the water samples data to. This will give a better idea on what is happening and which beach is getting closer at being a good state.

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/BeachReport/default.asp

Mentone to Carrum is more pulluted than the city beaches I did hear that the Carrum ponds had overflowed into the patto R.

Bonbeach Tv is in todays Age newspaper. Plus soem of beaches water quality levels. Looks like StKilda has got worse since the start of the week.

The Bonbeach TV made it into the Age newspaper today. See online article below.

www.theage.com.au/environment/sustainability/it-never-rains-but-it-plumes-20110209-1an33.html