COLE BAY--Nature Foundation has been tackling an ongoing diesel Fuel Spill in Simpson Bay Lagoon since Sunday when an alert about a large amount of fuel entering the lagoon from a channel in Cole Bay close to Kool Baai Villas. It was established that the fuel was diesel and that the source was somewhere in the area, perhaps from one of the many unregulated garages.
It appears as if the diesel was intentionally dumped into the channel which eventually leads into the Simpson Bay Lagoon. Diesel evaporates in about six hours; but in the meantime significant damage has already been done to some mangrove areas and associated wildlife.
“We have been trying to clean up as much as we can but unfortunately the amount is too large for just the Nature Foundation to respond to,” said Foundation Manager Tadzio Bervoets. Law enforcement and the government inspection units are aware of the spill.
