Immediately looking for someone to blame hughsheehy?

We have had many multiples of our normal rainfall over the past few months, especially in Cork. This is surely washing more from the land into the rivers, which in turn empty into the sea.

Yes. From what the newspapers say it’s shit washing off the land. Slurry spread on the fields.

P Wurple this isn’t a new thing in Coolmaine, this has been ongoing for the last 10 years or more. in 2010 this http://www.southernstar.ie/News/Harvesting-sea-lettuce-wont-eliminate-cause-1809.htm?id=1809 article gives an explanation as to the process involved with the pollution..This http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoino/2567676928/ photo shows you what the pollution looks like. When it starts to rot it is so putrid that you will gag from the smell. the residents in the area have been living with this for years.

To understand how much of a hazard this poses to people read this http://www.enotes.com/topic/Sea_lettuce
” The rotting leaves produced large quantities of hydrogen sulphide, a toxic gas. In one incident near Saint-Michel-en-Grève, a horse rider lost consciousness and his horse died after breathing the seaweed fumes; in another, a lorry driver driving a load of decomposing sea lettuce passed out, crashed and died”

What’s your point? Do you want farmers to stop fertilising their land? Or do you want them to switch from the natural methods to more chemicals?

You can validly talk about a lack of proper drainage infrastructure, or weather forcasting, or zoning and planning depts, but the farmer is the very bottom of the chain, so I don’t know what the heck you expect them to say in this comment you are calling for.

*suggestive* meant to be successive

Front strand and Claycastle lost their blue flags two years ago.