GEORGE NEWS - Colours are changing from “orange” to “green” on our local beaches following extensive clean-up operations along the Garden Route. The colour coding is used to identify which beaches still have hydrocarbon, low-sulphur oil droplets, and which have been cleaned.
These oil droplets were found along the coastline of the Garden Route towards the end of November.
This morning both Wilderness Beach and Victoria Bay were colour coded as “green”, and could therefore hoist their blue flags – bragging rights for exquisite tourist ready beaches, just in time for the holiday season.
Herold’s Bay is still currently orange, but will receive its green status very soon, said GRDM Disaster Manager Gerhard Otto this afternoon. “It is our priority to finalise cleaning busier beaches, including Blue Flag beaches as the holiday season moves closer. We are also meeting less frequently now as beaches return to normal. We will only meet at 14h00 on Thursday again.”
There have been no reports linking the oil spill to humans, birds, or marine life.
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