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Pollution at Brittas Bay

recedite · 2011-06-28 21:14:43

If you go in for a swim this summer, don't be too surprised if you come out with a strange metallic green sheen to your skin instead of a tan. Arklow Harbour Commissioners are planning to dredge up 60,000 tonnes of toxic mud from the harbour, and dump it just north of the harbour entrance, 750 metres offshore, which is…

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28-06-2011 10:14pm

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If you go in for a swim this summer, don't be too surprised if you come out with a strange metallic green sheen to your skin instead of a tan.

Arklow Harbour Commissioners are planning to dredge up 60,000 tonnes of toxic mud from the harbour, and dump it just north of the harbour entrance, 750 metres offshore, which is just round the headland from Brittas Bay.

The EPA who granted the licence, approved the cunning plan, in which the "heavy metals" are expected to sink down obligingly into a big hole dug in the sea bed.

The dumping site is a new dumping site located 0.75 km offshore from Arklow. Due to the contamination of a large proportion of the harbour sediments with heavy metals, the dredged material shall be placed in an excavated pit at the dumping site and capped with a deep layer of clean sediments

It starts next week.

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