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  • 4 months ago
A massive Sargassum seaweed clean up exercise has started across Tobago. This from Chief Secretary Farley Augustine as most of the island's beaches have been affected. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.
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00:00since yesterday afternoon we have been cleaning the area we'll continue to clean the area
00:05the beaches remain open as those beaches are now mostly clear of the sargassum earlier at swallows
00:15a blanket of sargassum deposits littered at the beach leading to pigeon point in pigeon point
00:22in northern side of the beach we'll still have some sargassum in the water and that's because
00:29we are experiencing some nip tides which means that it will become it will be difficult rather
00:35for the sargassum to beach in that area but we are deploying some strategies to remove the sargassum
00:43from inside the water um today uh in the swallows area that's mostly clear and we have teams out that
00:53will be raking and removing this agassum from on the beach store b as well the same thing mostly clear
01:01and we are simply clearing this agassum of the beach mr augustine said the cleanup exercises are at this
01:08time being carried out at no additional cost to the th as workers attached to the urp program are
01:16assisting in cleanup efforts as the tv6 news observed them at store bay beach on wednesday we will not be
01:24using um in the main uh heavy equipment remove the sargassum at this time because it's not needed
01:32we are manually removing it from on the beach itself and we have deployed workers from urp in particular
01:41to assist us with that um cause and so at this time there is no additional spread augustine said magdalena
01:49to lambo and the space side districts will get the attention of the division of food security elizabeth
01:56williams tv6 news
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