Byron Shire Council has been monitoring water quality at local beaches for some months. The results are on Council’s website.
Water quality is rated on a simple scale of 1-4 stars where 4 is the highest quality.
On two recent occasions Main Beach, Byron Bay gets a rating of 3 stars = fair – (‘bacterial levels indicate an increased risk of illness to bathers, particularly those with lower immune function such as the elderly and young children’).
Parents are letting young children swim in this warm brown water as part of the beach experience. How do they get the information that this water is dangerous for their kids?
Clarkes Beach drain and its polluted urban runoff needs to be diverted in the direction it originally went – to the Belongil wetlands.
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