Coral Bay Community Council,Inc.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has an outdated over-burdened trash incinerator and fires at their trashdump located less than three miles from Coral Bay. Depending on wind direction, the smoke can drift over Coral Bay and is very unpleasant. EPA sent air quality researchers to do studies of our air. They missed a smoke event, but did provide some baseline date on our air. A website link to EPA to be added here soon.

The BVI is planning to install a new incinerator with quality scrubbers within the next few months. This has been in process for several years. On November 13th, CBCC was represented during a meeting between the USVI govt and the BVI government over concerns about the delay in installing the incinerator and stopping the dumpfire smoke. Here is the presentation given by Sharon Coldren of CBCC:"Coral Bay's concerns about Tortola Dumpsmoke". and a news article on the meeting from the Daily News: link

BVI Beacon coverage in Dec 09: link

CBCC continues to monitor this problem. If you experience an episode of dumpfire smoke, please call CBCC's office with your location in Coral Bay, and the date and time, to assist in our monitoring.