Oil residues washed up from Middelkerke to Knokke-Heist

“We can speak of pieces about the size of a thumb, which are mainly concentrated on the beaches of Middelkerke and Bredene,” says Governor Carl Decaluwé. It is presumably clinging crude fuel oil (heavy fuel). It is unknown where it comes from. (read more below the photo)

The Management Unit of The Mathematical Model of the North Sea (MUMM) has deployed an aircraft to determine where the pollution comes from and whether more oil spills are coming towards our coast. to rinse. “There is a chance that it concerns historical pollution. In other words: pieces that were already on the bottom of the sea and are now washed ashore due to the stormy weather of the past period,” says Decaluwé.

No oil traces were found on the West Coast.