[PHOTOS] Black pollutant taints Toti River inlet
It appeared to be slowly leeching into the main river.
Mystery surrounds the source of a black pollutant that has seeped into and is discolouring Toti River from the servitude that runs beneath the old CBD taxi rank.
The Sun was contacted by a resident who had noticed the black colour of the water at about 1.30pm this afternoon (Friday, 11 March).
When the Sun arrived a short while later, the discoloured water in that section of the servitude was a saturated black colour, and on viewing it from the Kingsway bridge, it appeared to be slowly leeching into the main river.
Toti Conservancy’s Corinne Winson said when she had checked the inlet of the channel that feeds underneath the taxi rank at the railway pedestrian bridge, a slower stream of water at that point was running clear. However, a larger volume of water was discharging into the river at the southern end of the taxi rank parking lot. This too appeared to be clear.
It thus can’t be established if the pollutant was added at the inlet site or whether it fed through from an upstream source.
