On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Rob Gaylard <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance of cleaning the actual river! I shudder to think what the > pollution count is! Does any one know?
The Liesbeek is one of the finest rivers in the country. You woudl not want to drink the water and I woudl not wnat to eat fish that came out of there, but if you fell in or got splashed you should be fine. There is regular water monitoring done, The section in Obs does look rather manky at the moment - with all the vegetation being removed you have a cleare view of the river You woudl have noticed the regular maintence done by machine and by hand each year and it never seems to make a difference. If we all complained and commented via Facebook, Twitter, email, writing to newspapers then perhaps the politicians woudl take more notice. Their is a project named after Kader Asmal that is emplying the jobless to clean wtaer ways - the Liesbeek being one and the Black another - they gys on the black all have yellow Tshirts Friends of the Liesbeek www,fol.org.za has a Liesbeek Maitnenace team of 4 full time employees but we look after the River from its source in Bishops Court all the way to its confluence with the Black at the end of the River Club property. The FOL team has been supplemented by a number of these Kader Asmal workers and have worked the stretch which looks pretty barren now but which is due for replanting soon. Join the FOL and let your voice be heard - become an activist - even and arnchair activist and write to the press and tell your friends. Don't thro your old paint down the drain or your old car oil - because guess where that ends up. If you see anyone doing such things check our website and we provide numbers to call to make a report. Even the soap from washing yard car in the street ends up in the Liesbeek so think twice about that. Plenty of the litter in the river was dropped in the streets surrounding and makes it way into the River with the stormwater - so help stamp out littering. These are just some of the things you can do Trev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en.
