Tar balls buried on beach!
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, AUG 31
Ill-equipped to deal with the tar balls, labourers deployed to clean up the beaches are found disposing off the oily substance by burying them in pits dug right on the beach.
The labourers dug up small pits on the shore to dispose off the tar balls. At some places, the oily substance was disposed off in the vegetation on the landward side of the beach.
When contacted a senior official, he admitted that disposing off the tar balls in pits on the beach is not the scientific way of getting rid of the oily substance.
Assistant fire divisional officer, Margao Prakash Parab said the oily substance needs to be transported at a designated place.
instead of burying the balls on the beach. “He, however, said that there is no harm if the tar balls are collected and stored at one place on the beach and then shifted to a designated place”, he added.
Expressing surprise over the mode of disposing off the tar balls, locals said the oily substance may resurface again if the tar balls are buried on the beach instead of being lifted away from the shore.
Tar balls buried on beach!
MARGAO, AUG 31 Ill-equipped to deal with the tar balls, labourers deployed to clean up the beaches are found disposing off the oily substance by burying them in pits dug right on the beach.
