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Offline chris35

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Sea pollution ????
« on: August 05, 2015, 09:28:03 AM »
There are some worrying posts on FB regarding the strange colour of the sea at the moment. Has anyone on here noticed it?



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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2015, 10:46:35 AM »
I've noticed all the bleating going on on Facebook. "The Tourism Dept need to do something about it" "someone needs to issue a statement".

If those people posting on Facebook are that concerned they should go and ask the  relevant people about it as I suspect there aren't any local government employees reading the page and/or passing on the concerns.

If a statement were issued I doubt there would be many of those complaining that were competant enough in Turkish to understand it anyway.

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2015, 16:21:57 PM »
This is a BIG problem that seems to have got worse over the last couple of years.

I can clearly remember the sea was crystal clear right up to the shoreline. There did not seem to be pollution of any sort apart from a stray reed or two brought down by the river at Yaniklar. The great sea water quality was one of many reasons we decided to move to this area.  Then, a couple of years ago, this all changed. Swimming in the sea was like swimming in a sewerage farm.  It was (and still is) disgusting. At this time, I noticed a beige colour extending several meters out from the shore line.  At first I put this down to the dredging and other canal work that was going on at the time.  But, since this has finished a long time ago, the discolouration remains.

Although it would be hard to prove, I have several friends who have recently swam in the sea at Calis and all of them ended up with very bad stomachs.

I last went swimming at Calis beach about a month ago.  Unfortunately, nothing had changed.  So I am wondering chris35, whether you are seeing what I saw, or whether it has got even worse now.

So the real question should be "who do you need to get in touch with to sort this issue out?"

I do agree that you can talk about this on forums until the cows come home and nothing will change. So who do we go to for something to be done?

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2015, 18:36:56 PM »
Seriously worried if this is the case, always swim at Calis!

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2015, 23:57:00 PM »
Could it be something to do with the increase in large hotels on the shoreline? I heard the Sensatori had been find recently. Not sure how true that is though.

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2015, 05:54:39 AM »
Sensatorı were fıned for buıldıng a basement at the hotel wıthout permıssıon.

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2015, 12:03:52 PM »

 Think I'll give the swimming a miss today then.......
« Last Edit: August 06, 2015, 12:41:02 PM by philrose »

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2015, 12:40:23 PM »
Plenty swimming in it today then. ;D

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2015, 15:16:27 PM »
If you look carefully at the photograph, you can see the discolouration extending out sea up to a certain point. It looks a wierd green now. Perhaps it's algae. If that's the case, then I would suggest the algae is thriving in the water because it is polluted with sewerage.

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Re: Sea pollution ????
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2015, 15:21:49 PM »
I wonder what effect it has on the turtles ?




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