Sewage pollutes Nahal Saadia in Haifa - again • "Infrastructure like in a third world country" • Watch

The incident of Nahal Saadia sewage pollution

The Kishon River Authority informed Lahi Pa - the news corporation:
Due to the heavy rains that hit our area, the municipal drainage system flowed into the sewer system and caused a load on the sewer lines to the Haifa Treatment Plant. As a result, the sewage ditches along the Saadia stream flowed directly into the stream and polluted it with sewage.

Watch the sewage flow into Nahal Saadia (Photo: Alon Ben Meir, Nahal Kishon Authority) • Watch

Recurring hazard

The people of the Kishon River Authority are in the field and are checking the source and cause of the discharge and have taken sewage samples from the point of discharge and from the water of the stream, in order to assist the enforcement bodies in dealing with the recurring hazard. It should be noted that only some of the sewers have an emergency discharge permit from the Ministry of Environmental Protection. In this case, there is also a sewer breach as a result of a fracture fault in one of the trenches that is not in the emergency permit.
A notice of the incident was given to the Carmel Water Corporation, under whose responsibility the sewer lines are, and to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Taking samples from the sewage stream that pollutes Nahal Saadia (Photo: Alon Ben Meir - Nahal Kishon Authority)

CEO of the Kishon River Authority, Sharon Nissim:

The Kishon River Authority is categorically opposed to any granting of a permit to discharge into the river in an emergency and certainly to a permit given to a recurring hazard. All the infrastructure in the area must be regulated and repaired soon. Beyond that, not all the sewage that flowed is within the scope of the emergency permit given and therefore enforcement actions must be taken against the environmental wrongdoers.

Heavy damage to the ecosystem

Nissim also said: "Pollution incidents in the river cause significant damage to the existing ecosystem in the area and endanger the inhabitants of the river. It is not possible that in 2022 the state of the infrastructure in the area will be like a third world country.

We call on all the relevant parties to act with full vigor, in order to regulate the problematic sewage and drainage infrastructures in Haifa."