The ban on bathing on the beaches of Quarteira and Vale do Lobo will be lifted "even before lunch, probably in the next hour", after the most recent analyzes carried out on the water revealed that "the situation has already returned to normal", he revealed to the Sul Informação Pedro Coelho, regional director of the Portuguese Environment Agency.
The green flag will once again be hoisted in these bathing areas «as soon as the notification procedures of the different entities are concluded», namely the National Maritime Authority, a process that started this morning, after the APA received the result of the analyzes, at around 9:30 am .
Yesterday, Tuesday, bathing ban was decreed and consequent hoisting of the red flag on these two beaches in the municipality of Loulé, after analyzes of the quality of the water have «revealed microbiological values above the reference parameters».
At issue would be, according to SIC, which spoke to the regional Health delegate, the «presence of fecal coliforms in the water».
Yesterday, collections were made to carry out new control analyses, which revealed that the polluting agents were no longer present.
In this way, everything indicates that the focus of pollution is punctual, "probably of maritime origin".
«We are still looking for the source, but it could even have originated in the sea, since we have not yet identified anything on land. Normally, when we do not find any terrestrial focus, we assume that it was an illegal discharge from a boat», explained Pedro Coelho.
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