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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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OBBR has hired a consulting firm to figure out some way to keep it off Dawn Beach or at least reduce it.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Glad they are doing something. I do wonder, since this will be a concerted effort, I wonder what they will be doing with the accumulated seaweed? I believe what most hotels and restaurants have been doing is to bury it. I wonder if they will attempt to actually compost it.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Yes, we saw that today in the Daily Herald. Hopefully they will be able to better manage the clean-up of the beaches.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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It depends on where you are on the island. Some beaches are not affected at all, like Simpson Bay beach.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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kim said: I hope they don't burry the seaweed. Just saw on the news that one theory to the beach explosion in Rhode Island that sent a 65 year old into the air could have been caused by methane gas buildup from buried seaweed!! That certainly is believable!
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Hi. That's the same article I posted yesterday.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Any recent reports on the seaweed situation?
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Have you been down past Pedro's at all? Would be interested to hear the status of the construction down there.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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According to a story in today's Daily Herald, which apparently is not online that I saw, the Prefecture is currently cleaning up Cul de Sac, which started on Saturday and is to run through tomorrow. Next up is a clean up of seaweed at Orient. The final disposition of the seaweed is supposed to be compost. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Clapping.gif" alt="" />
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Huh, ok, thanks. I didn't find it there earlier. Glad they tackled Cul de Sac first, as from all accounts, it was really bad there.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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OK, that is incorrect. To say that the whole Gulf of Mexico is inundated is just plain WRONG. Florida's Gulf coasts are definitely NOT completely inundated with seaweed. I actually don't know what the Tilium Coast is, will look it up.
And for SXM even, there are certain beaches, like Simpson Bay and Mullett that currently have no seaweed issues, although Simpson Bay did have an issue in May, for sure.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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OK, I did a quick Google search and I still don't know what the Tilium coast is??
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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And for the record, when we were there in mid to late April, Mullet did have a few days when the seaweed was there although not to the degree many of the other beaches were covered with it.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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Carol_Hill said: OK, I did a quick Google search and I still don't know what the Tilium coast is?? Poster probably meant to say Tullium (I'm not sure of spelling) which would be the shore on the western side of the Gulf of Mexico. Close to Cozumel. I find it hard to believe it would be effected that much also.
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Re: St. Martin take action against the Sargassum weed
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kim said: I hope they don't burry the seaweed. Just saw on the news that one theory to the beach explosion in Rhode Island that sent a 65 year old into the air could have been caused by methane gas buildup from buried seaweed!! That's not true. No buried seaweed. No seaweed problem here at all. They think it was from an abandoned cable that once fed the light at the end of the causeway.
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