NSW: Sydney beaches cleanest for 20 years

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-2004
NSW: Sydney beaches cleanest for 20 years

SYDNEY, Jan 12 AAP - Sydney's beaches are the cleanest they've been in almost 20 years.

NSW Premier Bob Carr today welcomed the release of a report showing the city's beaches
had enjoyed the cleanest November-December period since 1985.

Mr Carr also noted that sewage pollution at Sydney's beaches had been cut by 99 per
cent since the 1990s.

The report by pollution monitors Beachwatch found that all 35 Sydney ocean beaches
passed the National Health and Medical Research Council water quality guidelines for faecal
coliform bacteria.

And …