THE BROWNISH COLOR OF THE SEA DISCOURAGES BATHERS AT DOCA DO CAVACAS AND PRAIA FORMOSA

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Sunday morning is not very inviting for bathing in the Complexo Doca do Cavacas area. The sea agitation and the brownish color of the sea water is discouraging bathers.

Next door, at Praia Formosa, as you can see in the images, the scene is identical.

A beautiful sunny day, but with the rough sea this is a normal occurrence.

From Jornal Madeira

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21 Responses

  1. It get more and more dirty since more tourist come. Every day also in Front of Pestana Grand and more east site. The goverment is doing nothing against all the dirty from Hotels. ALL go direkt in the ocean. Morning time is the worst. I am living beside Dua Torres and can see everytime. This island will die for overtourisme.

    1. Yes, how dare those pesky tourists use toilets whilst on the island!! They should have corks rammed up their ar**s for the duration of their stay!

        1. The one you deserve! It is absolutely ridiculous to state that the reason for the brown sea is the tourists – which your island relies on may I add.

        2. A fitting one for blaming tourists for the parlous state of Funchal’s drains and sewers.

          1. Well said Maurice. How on earth does she justify her comments that it is down to tourists?

    2. It’s a tourist island,stop moaning and enjoy the beautiful island,every place has their issues

    3. Is there any actual medical analysis proving this is human waste? I find it hard to believe that planning permission is given without adequate provision to make safe the discharge. Any hoteliers greatest fear is an outbreak of dysentery. I’m struggling with the comment, ” A beautiful sunny day, but with the rough sea this is a normal occurrence.” Does this mean that the rough seas disturb the sea bed. It’s quite common to see after heavy rain, areas of discoloured water close to the mouth of rivers. As to tourists being the cause only a few years ago outside of Funchal, most toilets were holes in the floor.

      1. What you see in these pictures is not human waste nor sewage waters. This is dirt which lies on the seabed after periods of rain brought by riverstreams and small streams. This dirt settles on the seabed and in periods with southern weather (waves and currents generated in the Atlantic Ocean south of Madeira) this dirt arises to the surface of the water. It takes a few weeks to settle or completely remove the dirt. I am not saying that there are no other pollutions focus from sewage but they are not like that what you see in these photographs. That is dirt from the mountains.

        1. Antonio Lamas
          Tell them right they think that Madeira is becoming like in certain areas of the UK where the sewage is discharged in the sea and rivers .As far the rest the locals and tourist they need to be more responsible with the rubbish when in the towns or villages and even the countryside or hiking don’t leave your trash behind put in the bind or take with you.

          1. Why on earth do you ALWAYS find a reason to bring the UK into every conversation. This article is about the dirty looking water in MADEIRA. Antonio Lamas is right in that whenever there are rough seas this naturally whips up sand from the seabed. I would love to read a comment from you that DOESN’T mention the UK sometime.

  2. The UK also experiences a similar situation with regards to discharge of sewage into waterways.

    1. Jose and Elsie
      PLEASE don’t get as bad as Isabel who constantly complains about the UK. We know we have had problems here about raw sewage, which is simply dreadful, but this article is about Madeira, and there has been no mention that the brown water was caused by sewage. As mentioned before, it’s probably the undercurrent.

  3. UK only place in the world to privatise whole water network (thanks to Margaret Thatcher). Companies give shareholders the money they should be investing to process sewage, so it goes into the rivers instead…..

    1. Most of French Water Companies are privately owned. The same companies are buying up most of Italy’s water providers.

    2. Elise
      I see the UK news and read the UK newspapers and been in a few beaches in Uk cost line that sewage been discharge and one of them was Cornwall from all the places .And I hope that problem was resolved and doesn’t happen again . I relay don’t know what the Tory party is doing.

  4. I feel sorry for the tourists that pay a very high price to stay in these hotels to swim in sh*t.

    2. Danny
      This this swim in sh*t. like you like to say must be your constant diarrhea of words that polluted the area .?

  5. @George Nabbs – it’s all here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization#cite_note-32

    The table shows for England – extent “Entire country” (the only one with entire country, France 9000), type “Full privatisation”. i.e. England is the only country in the world with full country privatisation, each company being a monopoly! (Wasn’t privatisation a Thatcher policy to increase competition?)

  6. George Nabbs – French water companies weren’t taken into public ownership (early C20) then privatised like in England (1989). According to Wikipedia, England is the only country on Earth where iro water privatisation: 1) the extent was “Entire country” (i.e. not just a few urban areas) 2) “Full privatization” (unlike e.g. France “Concessions and leases”). Thatcher’s aim was greater competition – but each area has only one provider, i.e. a monopoly! At least for elec/gas we can sign up for e.g. EDF (French) in the UK (and pay a lot more than the French do for the same usage, increases capped at 5% in France).

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