Nine Sydney beaches closed after grey balls wash up on shore

Nine beaches in Sydney’s north have been closed after mysterious debris balls washed up on the shoreline.

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00:00Staff from the Northern Beaches Council are scouring the shorelines of nine of their beaches

00:07where hundreds of white and grey balls about the size of marbles washed up on their coastline

00:11earlier this morning.

00:12Since then, the council has shut all nine of those beaches until the clean-up is finished.

00:17They include really popular beaches like Manly, North and South Curl Curl and DY beaches.

00:23The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority says it's still too early to say

00:27exactly what these balls are made up of and where they came from.

00:31But it did say that they're quite similar to those mysterious black balls that washed

00:35up on Sydney's eastern suburbs beaches a couple of months ago.

00:39They also said they look similar to balls that turned up on Bombo Beach near Kayama

00:43further south.

00:45Sydney Water has put out a statement which says that nearby sewage treatment plants have

00:49had no issues with their operations recently and that Sydney Water is working with the

00:54to try and work out exactly where these balls today have come from.