Cape Towns long-running controversy over marine outfall sewage discharge has escalated once again, with ActionSA formally challenging the City of Cape Towns practices while the municipality defends its compliance and planned upgrades, reports Cape town Etc .
On Monday, ActionSA made appeal submissions to an independent appeals panel established by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment DFFE, arguing that the City has repeatedly breached its licensing conditions for the discharge of wastewater into the Atlantic Ocean.
Leading the charge , ActionSA National Chairperson Michael Beaumont alleged that Cape Towns historic system of marine outfall pipelines - located at Camps Bay, Green Point and Hout Bay - has been used to pump vast quantities of raw, untreated or only screened sewage into the sea.
