Werner, Harties is cleaner at the moment. Drove over the Vaal on the N1 again today. All I saw was a sluggish green snake, not a vibrant live river, with not a rise, splash or anything.
The Riet as it flows into the Loch Vaal area was brown, so it's not coming from there.
My theory ( totally unproved ) is that the local sewerage works took advantage of the floods over the last 2 years and dumped tons if raw sh!t into the river. Most of this sh1t settled on the botton in the the Loch Vaal area.
Now that the flows are low and the water unseasonably hot the sh1t is feeding the algea, hence what Rand Water call an Algea Bloom, which the say will go away as the water gets colder.
There's no hyacinth left after the floods to clean the water as it goes down river, and this year no rock snot at the start of summer.
I fear that this winter could be a case of fishing in a green sewer.
Needless to say I an P1ssed off, very p1ssed off.
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