GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - According to a statement issued on 2 December, clean-up operations will continue over the weekend.
The feedback received by the municipality during a multi-agency response session, about the stranded hydrocarbon, low-sulphur oil droplets, indicates that we are nearing the end of the incident.
Along the Garden Route coastlines, the windy conditions and high-impact swells have yielded little to no new oil droplets.
According to Gerhard Otto, GRDM Manager: Disaster Management, it is important to note that there are manual and natural clean-ups of beaches. With this, it is meant that within three days, the droplets will no longer be visible to the naked eye, depending on their size.
There have been no reports of the spill affecting humans, birds, or marine life.
According to Dr Nina Viljoen, Head of Environmental Management at GRDM, no estuaries along the Garden Route have been contaminated.
Continuous assessments will be conducted over the weekend with responders on standby, and monitoring will take place for any further evidence of oil contamination.
In the multi-agency response engagement, it was stressed that monitoring of birds would be extended if the response was scaled down since it is difficult to catch flying birds.
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