Cape Town mulls added treatment of raw sewage pumped into the sea
But the city keeps defending marine outfalls, even while science or technology does not exist to break down ‘forever’ chemicals
21 February 2023 - 19:00
The City of Cape Town is considering treating up to 39-million litres of essentially raw sewage pumped out to sea daily via three marine outfalls, the first of which was built 122 years ago.
The release of sewage into a Marine Protected Area, as is the case with the Camps Bay and Hout Bay outfalls, has been a subject of controversy since photos of the sewage reaching the surface were published in 2016. ..
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