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Nine Sydney beaches closed after grey balls wash up on shore
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/14/2025
Nine beaches in Sydney’s north have been closed after mysterious debris balls washed up on the shoreline.
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Staff from the Northern Beaches Council are scouring the shorelines of nine of their beaches
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where hundreds of white and grey balls about the size of marbles washed up on their coastline
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earlier this morning.
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Since then, the council has shut all nine of those beaches until the clean-up is finished.
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They include really popular beaches like Manly, North and South Curl Curl and DY beaches.
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The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority says it's still too early to say
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exactly what these balls are made up of and where they came from.
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But it did say that they're quite similar to those mysterious black balls that washed
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up on Sydney's eastern suburbs beaches a couple of months ago.
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They also said they look similar to balls that turned up on Bombo Beach near Kayama
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further south.
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Sydney Water has put out a statement which says that nearby sewage treatment plants have
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had no issues with their operations recently and that Sydney Water is working with the
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to try and work out exactly where these balls today have come from.
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