Colva: Even when the North Goa coastline has been flooded by tar balls in the past few days, boxing oil lumps have appeared along the Beach Beach Southern Southern Beach.
While smaller tar ball deposits have become a common phenomenon along the coastal belt during different times this year, the boxing sized is unusual and last seen on the Benaulim Beach in June.
A green activist said it could be the result of smaller oil units collected in sea beds and then driven and transported by sea turbulence.
The target ball is a compacted crude lump found in or in the sea that is clogged on the beach.
As per experts, tar pollution Ball has severe consequences on not only the beauty of the beach, but also on the survival of marine life.
A former scientist from Nio said that the tar ball on the beach was basically the result of washing crude oil in the open sea or the ocean.
The oil layer undergoes physical and chemical changes called weathering before finally washing and depositing along the coastline as a black lump or a sticky ball.
“They are an indication of oil spills and are dangerous for the marine and beach environment,” said the expert.
Tar ball washing on the beach twice a year – pre-and post-monsoon – has become an ordinary occurrence.
However, in recent years they have emerged with more frequencies.
A environmentalist said that the disposal of tar balls in open fields or bury them in the sand, which produced the Department of Tourism, resulted in damaging the soil for acting as a block and preventing oxygen from entering it.
Environmental lovers say that the tar ball is used in Tarring the road or compressed into a block and used to fill the hole.
After North Goa, a boxing-sized tar ball, wet along the Salcete coastline
