Huge amounts of waste and rotting algae
Dear Hai Pa readers, following the article published inLive here - Haifa News, Regarding the huge amounts of waste that arrived from Beirut to the beaches of Haifa, and contained plastic bags and harmful garbage of various kinds, (this is in addition to the large amount of dirt left behind by vacationers on the beaches), cleaning teams from the municipality were sent to the place and thanks to this, the beach underwent a real transformation:
From a situation where huge amounts of rotting algae, garbage bags, leftover food and other "a lot of junk" filled it, now the beach is very clean.
The heavily polluted beach
This is the southern coast of the Kiryat, bordering the port of the new bay. This beach is heavily polluted with algae and plastic bags that have reached the breakwater due to a change in wind direction. The northerly winds that are blowing now and will continue to blow for several weeks, push waste from the north of Israel to this enclave in Haifa Bay.
sanitational mennace
These red algae reached an unimaginable height of 60 cm! This is a huge amount(!), and not only that, this huge layer of algae covered huge amounts of waste under it: nylons, plastics, planks and much more... all of this, created sanitational mennace.
Crabs, shellfish and sea turtles
Many animals live on this beach, sand crabs, rock crabs, bristle worms, and a good number of different molluscs. Not far from the shore, sea turtles swim, swallowing quite a few plastic bags, which, for the sea turtles, are similar to jellyfish, and as a result, they suffocate to death.
Because of the wind…
It must be remembered that certain beaches need regular maintenance since they are "prone to disasters" due to their topographical location, when the State of Israel is at the end of the Mediterranean Sea and serves as the final destination for some of the area's waste, subject to the wind regime.
Regular maintenance is very necessary, because in a situation where the waste is not collected, it returns to the sea and returns, God forbid.
A bit of optimism to finish
Haifa Bay has become cleaner than it has been in many years, and animals that have not been here since 1976 (according to records), are returning and inhabiting the bottom of the bay.
We thank the Haifa Municipality for their quick response to the hazard.
Please report any hazard or strange or unusual phenomenon to your mouth,
Thank you all and good health.
Hello Yaron.
Only in recent years has there been a shift regarding the protection of the sea.
Haifa Bay is actually an enclave where garbage from different places arrives.
There is already a great recovery on the sediment at the bottom of the bay. And this after the extension of the breakwater that blocked a large part of the reef.
I myself, several years ago, unfortunately saw a huge dead sea turtle on the beach. So happy to hear that the beaches are finally being cleaned. We need to bring more awareness to the public as well. I remember that once in the schools they would take all the students one day a year to clean outside! Start from there with advertising that "digs" for information. In the end somehow something will be caught...
Still many of the residents of the Kariyas do not dare to wade in the water on the beaches of the Kariyas and they know very well why.... It is not going to get better with the opening of the Gulf port, but will only get worse... Everyone knows this but as usual they treat the Haifa Bay like the national garbage can!
A happy and good promotion that the Haifa municipality is considering
And thanks for posting this encouraging article
I personally haven't seen a crab or an octopus on Carmel Beach since the mid-90s.
Not to mention sea urchins or cucumbers etc...
A polluted sea sponsored by the Israeli government for generations.
Hello Octopus.
You are right, molluscs and skin tufts are signs of the health of the sea.
I have good news... these animals are recovering, albeit slowly but surely.
Moti, my friend, congratulations on the work and writing, indeed I until the beach is clean and unfortunately I saw the dead turtle on the beach. Keep up the good work and keep protecting the sea animals, Aus. Sheehan Avitan
Kudos to you, Moti, for raising awareness and for the quick treatment of the municipality.