Posted March 12, 2015
Written
by Gloria Villas
Tourists
should still enjoy frolicking and swimming in Boracay despite the explosion of
news about Coliform bacteria.
Office
of the Aklan Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Ivene Reyes said: “Boracay’s
waters fronting the island’s famed White Beach have been cleared by the
Environmental Management Bureau and are deemed safe and clean for swimming.”
According
to him, “Atty. Jonathan Bulos, Regional Director of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)’s Environmental Management Bureau
(EMB-6) in Western Visayas assured in a technical conference that the coastal
water along White Beach is not hazardous.”
Bulos
clarified that the earlier report released by the EMB-6 indicating high content
presence of Coliform bacteria in seawater surrounding the island was actually
taken from the mouth of the drainage system in Bulabog. The latter, is found on
Boracay’s eastern side.
Meanwhile,
EMB-6 continues to urge that the drainage and sewerage system meant to
particularly curb water pollution in waters surrounding the resort island be
once and for all be completed.
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