In Ciudad de la Costa, a collector pipe that transports residual water from the Treatment Plant to the Solymar beach broke. As of Thursday night, while work was being done on the pipeline, “raw residual liquid” — without being treated — was being diverted directly out to sea. Therefore OSE requested that people do not bathe on the Solymar beach at Stop 20as well as neither five stops east and five west. The Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peña, explained to The Observer that it is about El Bosque beach to Pinar de Solymar beach
The organization’s president, Raúl Montero, told The Observer that since Thursday night a better solution was found: the plant has a space where the untreated water can be kept so as not to divert it directly into the sea. This began to be done on Thursday night.
Montero said they hope that on the morning of this Friday the pipe remains in operation, and therefore the plant. It is a solution that “is not definitive”. Anyway, The president of OSE said that “it is logical” in the next few days that the pipe be fixed with a “new part” in the long term.
According to an OSE statement, the pipe “discharges 700 meters offshore from the Río de la Plata in the Solymar beach area and at Stop 20 of the Rambla in Ciudad de la Costa.” Agency personnel “are working intensively to repair the affected pipeline,” says the text shared this Thursday.
“At the same time, central laboratory staff is extracting samples in the possibly affected bathing area of the coast, and analyzing them”, he continues. The results of these analyzes will be known around 2:00 p.m. this Friday. They will be considered to lift, or not, the request that people not bathe .
In any case, Montero pointed out that just because there is an “affect” in the water, it does not imply that “there are pathogenic elements”.
For his part, the Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peña, ruled out in dialogue with Underlined that there is a “sanitary problem”
“Anyway, according to the models that were originally taken into account when authorizing this plant, we can say that today there is no problem from a health point of view”held.
