International organisation "Blue Flag": The sea in Bulgaria is clean

The international organisation "Blue Flag" has confirmed the good quality of sea water in Bulgaria, representatives of "Sunny Beach" resort said on July 7.

"The sea water is crystal clear and there is no cause for even the slightest concern. This applies to the entire Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Twenty-one beaches and one marina received the Blue Flag award this year and we are strictly monitoring these beaches, including the cleanliness of the water," said Stanimir Georgiev, chairman of the Movement for Bulgaria, quoted by the resort's press centre.

The beaches certified under the International Programme are subject to serious monitoring throughout the tourist season, Georgiev explained. Every two weeks, an independent certified laboratory takes samples of the seawater with official protocols and tests them, and then submits the data to Blue Flag, which guarantees that the seawater indicators are excellent.

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The manager of the South Beach in Sunny Beach, Kiril Spasov, confirmed that all the indicators of the sea water meet the requirements not only of the Blue Flag, but also of the Bulgarian and European standards. Spasov referred to the protocols of the latest results of the South beach in Sunny Beach for the month of June.

According to them, the tests of sea water samples carried out by the independent laboratory of "Lemna Ecoinvest - Bulgaria" AD showed 59 units of enterococci out of 100 permissible and 46 units of Escherichia coli out of 250 permissible.

"The experts who carried out the tests explicitly stated in their official conclusion that the quality of the sea water in Sunny Beach meets the requirements of Bulgarian and European standards. I cannot think of another more solid and serious guarantee," Spasov said.