The residents of Istanbul’s Beykoz district have requested the authorities to take precautions relating to the air pollution and awful odor originating from Riva Creek.
The more and more unhealthy odor in Riva Creek and the colour of the stream, which began turning black in latest days, drew the response of the folks residing within the neighborhood.
Acting upon the rising complaints of the encompassing residents, the environmental inspection groups affiliated with the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change examined the realm and took samples from the creek.
Citizens who’re stated to really feel uneasy because of the unhealthy odor spreading towards the inside elements of the creek and the darkening of the colour of the water in some locations referred to as the authorities to discover a answer.
Salih Belen, the mukhtar or the native headman of Beykoz’s Riva neighborhood, chatting with Anadolu Agency (AA), stated that complaints about its odor and shade change within the area began 10 days in the past.
“After smelling bad smells, I called ISKI (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration). Then I felt the same smell again, I called the directorate again, and told me, ‘We have information,’ but they could not take action,” Belen stated.
Expressing that they’ve been disturbed by the air pollution within the stream for years, Belen stated that there are villages resembling Hüseyinli, Cumhuriyet, Bozhane, Öğümce, Akbaba that cross the factors of Paşaköy Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Facilities and broaden to the purpose the place the stream empties into the ocean.
“These are places that receive the treatment, and their treatment is transferred to Riva, but ISKI needs to monitor whether it is purified. If the wastes are separated and thrown away, they do not smell like this, meaning the machines are not working,” he stated.
Belen defined that Riva is a tourist-affiliated space, mentioning that individuals swim within the sea in the summertime. “There used to be fish here. Now there are no fish or anything else alive,” Belen concluded.
The air pollution of Riva Creek, certainly one of Istanbul’s most vital streams that flows into the Black Sea, is acknowledged as an ongoing social challenge – negatively affecting the lives and livelihoods of the residents within the surrounding space.
