Sea pollution ????

[Colwyn]

Were the turds there before JH started her holiday?

[Jacqui Harvey]

Nothing to do with the Harvey's Colwyn, we had a septic tank at our place.   So, it must be you pesky tourist staying in hotels in the area..... So how was the Sensatori ??

[Colwyn]

Sensational. I particularly enjoyed watching all our turds being transported out to sea via the magic invisible pipeline, being dodged by the circling cruisers who had to dump their holding tanks before going on to Fethiye (now that the new Buyuksehir charges are so much higher) surrounded by flocks of turtles chomping away.

Actually we were in Edinburgh enjoying the beautiful sunny weather and catching the End of Fringe firework festival.

[mac2010]

A turd a day keeps the tourist away, Maybe we should start a campaign ( Bag it & Tag it) and for everyone collected we could donate 5TL to a local  charity.    

[Phil]

I once heard the firmly held opinion expressed “We never had asylum seekers before the Channel Tunnel was built.”

I really think there is a similar false association being made here between a hotel going up and the problem on the beach.

I do vaguely remember speaking to someone quite a few years ago about nasties that can appear on areas of Calis beaches. It is only now, after a few Face Book postings and bleatings, that the connection to the new hotel has been inferred........ read the first few posts of this thread and see how it all developed from a question to a fact without any proof at all.

Tidal currents, off shore currents winds and tides can mean this stuff could be coming from literally anywhere and any direction. (Think about the message in a bottle game). It isn’t reported in Fethiye Centrum because no one swims there, but there has certainly been talk about the sea at Aksazlar for many years.

As another thought... where is the facility for the Calis Boats to discharge their waste tanks at the quayside in Calis. Has anyone ever seen a tanker hooked up to any of the boats to empty their tanks ( I have occasionally seen one in Fethiye). I am willing to bet a shilling or two that sadly, practically all the Calis boats and a good proportion of the Fethiye boats surreptitiously dump their waste at sea.

Maybe we should start asking them if they do ??

(Or we could start a Face Book page stating that they do dump waste and demanding that everyone boycotts the boats, we could hand out ten thousand leaflets and ask Simon Calder to get involved....... even though we didn’t have any proof and the boats denied it.)

PS : Any one found the pipe yet ??

[stoop]

Phil - I mentioned in an earlier post that a long standing beach bar owner is convinced it's the boats ( he actually named the 12 Island ones).

However it's much better for some to blame the new hotel no matter what evidence they lack.

[Daffodil]

Casts a whole new light on the New Years Day charity splash!

[Jacqui Harvey]

Whatever is causing this pollution, that must be lowering the prices of property in Koca Calis.
Someone will have to get to the bottom of it.   :

[Phil]

Yep – it won’t be long before people are saying “The prices in Koca Calis started falling after that hotel and beach pollution story.”

Any falling prices won’t have anything to do with the exchange rate, the state of the British economy, the glut of properties on the market or the lack of good properties on the market, the political situation in Turkey, the uncertainties about Residency, the Turkish cost of living, the mistrust of the Turkish property market or any other of the dozens of factors it could be – it will ALL be down to this fable.................

[KKOB]

I bet some EKH has started this rumour in the hope that the value of Efes would go into freefall.