{"id":218293,"date":"2025-06-27T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218293\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:51:11","slug":"bathers-urged-to-check-water-quality-in-the-east-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218293\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathers urged to check water quality in the East this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Sheringham the water quality has been rated as excellent in samples taken <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.data.gov.uk\/bwq\/profiles\/profile.html?_search=shering&amp;site=ukh1305-10100\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">between 2021 and 2024, external<\/a>. So far this year, 15 samples have been collected from this location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the agency advises against swimming in three areas in the East: Heacham, in Norfolk, Clacton, in Essex, and at Sheep&#8217;s Green on the Cam in Cambridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.data.gov.uk\/bwq\/profiles\/profile.html?_search=Cambridge%20(Cambridgeshire)&amp;site=ukh1201-09801\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheep&#8217;s Green, external<\/a> was one of 27 sites in England to receive designated bathing water status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-68992743\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in May 2024<\/a> but is rated as having poor water quality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Raine added: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t advise swimming after a heavy downpour as you&#8217;ll see lots of urban run-off from streets and pavements, you&#8217;ll see run-off from agricultural land and you also could potentially get sewage spills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Water companies have done huge investments over the past few years to make sure that that most of the sites around our coast have ultra violet filtration and treatment so that kills 99% of the bacteria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If bacteria has got into the water, it can still have an impact.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said people should also consider if the beach they are visiting has Blue Flag status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Sheringham the water quality has been rated as excellent in samples taken between 2021 and 2024, external.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-218293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114754714689256162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}