MURKY WATER Mangroves close to the shore of Manjugod, Negros Oriental, is surrounded by murky water on Thursday due to a wastewater spill triggered by a collapsed wall of the 20-hectare wastewater lagoon of Universal Robina Corp.’s Bais Distillery on Sunday. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
BACOLOD CITY—The area at the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape polluted by the wastewater spill caused by a breached lagoon of a distillery company has increased to about 3,000 hectares, from the initial estimated 400-hectare affected site, the Environment Management Bureau-Negros Island Region (EMB-NIR) reported.
This developed as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR-7) has advised against collecting and consuming dead fish and other aquatic organisms from the affected coastal waters off Bais City and Manjuyod town in Negros Oriental.
Vicente Losbañes, EMB-NIR acting director, said that a boat survey conducted on Thursday of the strait’s discolored waters determined the increase in the affected area.
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