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CONCERNED CITIZEN writes: I am an tenant at Greenways Golf Estate in Strand. My concern is all the rubbish lying all around on the beach.

I am sure that a lot of these properties belong to overseas people. I wonder what they think when they visit our beautiful Cape Town to come and relax in their million dollar houses for a holiday just to find their "private beach" full of bottles, papers empty cans etc. What a disgrace! When walking on this "secure private beach" and looking at beautiful or try to look at beautiful Table Mountain, you can't help to see the litter instead. Is there anything somebody can do about it?

CWF Neething, estate manager, responds:
The beach in front of Greenways is not privately owned by Greenways nor the City of Cape Town, but is the responsibility of Integrated Coastal Management. It is however cleaned by Greenways at our cost as well as the City of Cape Town Municipality (Helderberg).

Rubbish on the beach is not a constant situation but often caused by rain, especially after a dry spell. The source of rubbish on the beach is from the neighbouring areas and carried to the beach via the Soet River and the Broadlands Spruit.

The Broad-lands Spruit however is fed by street water and flash floods causing street rubbish being carried down to Greenways and subsequently to the beach.

The wind blowing from the picnic area to the south of Greenways also contributes to the dilemma. Where and if possible, Green-ways staff is tasked to help clean the beach.

Collected rubbish, in the bins provided by Greenways, is picked up by the Municipality's Solid Waste Department.

Greenways made several presentations to the municipality and the Mayor of Cape Town during the past year trying to achieve a holistic solution.

"Concerned Citizen' must realize that the Strand is functioning under various constraints including an educational backlog in "green management", an apparent non-caring population in the rivers' catchment areas, and lack of funds.

It is trusted that with education, better green management and more funds this situation will improve to tolerable levels. The green bins are there, do your bit.

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