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Banana Beach Pistia update

Banana Beach Pistia update

Whilst on a goose chase one morning this week, we swung in at Banana Beach to see what it had on offer. It also gave us a chance to give you a Banana Beach Pistia update.

Surf checkin' at Banana Beach
Remains of the train crash
Pistia seems to be dying
Some left in the corner
But clear up towards the sewage

Well, the accompanying photos still show that the stuff is full up in the corner at the mouth, but exists now at a fraction of what it was, when we first raised the alarm. Most of the blind estuary on the inside of the bridge is clear, pistia can only be seen skirting the edges.

So whatever bug the guys in the know distributed for us, worked wonders. Now we just got to help that the pistia did some good and filtered out some of the raw sewage being dumped into it.

Sometimes the shit flows over the main road on it’s journey down into the estuary. The expansion of population and the increased development in the area has pressured the current, very old, and small system, way into redundancy.

Sound familiar?

Sean Lange

Anarchist random.

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