{"id":326113,"date":"2025-08-07T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326113\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:45:12","slug":"raw-sewage-reported-seeping-on-to-beach-from-welsh-water-pumping-station-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326113\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw sewage reported \u2018seeping\u2019 on to beach from Welsh Water pumping station | Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A Senedd member has demanded that D\u0175r Cymru, or Welsh Water, invest more money in pumping stations after beachgoers reported raw sewage \u201cseeping\u201d on to a popular beach in north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales<\/a> during the peak of the school summer holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The effluent ran on to West Shore, near Llandudno, from under the roller-shutter door of a pumping station at the beach\u2019s car park, Janet Finch-Saunders, MS for Aberconwy, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIt is not acceptable. Our hotels are working flat out to accommodate our visitors. The kids are off school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cThis is when residents and visitors want to take a dip in the sea. Surfers Against Sewage are also finding that beaches in north Wales in my constituency have pollution levels that are much too high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cI\u2019ve written to Welsh Water \u2026 They are going to have to invest some money to stop this happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">D\u0175r Cymru is a not-for-profit that supplies drinking and wastewater services to most of the country. Data suggests it is <a href=\"https:\/\/top-of-the-poops.org\/company\/dwr-cymru-welsh-water\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the worst offender of all UK water companies<\/a> for sewage pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The company said that the leak had been caused by a blockage but that \u201cfoul water\u201d did not reach the beach or \u201center any watercourse and had no detrimental environmental impact\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A crew had attended to clear the blockage of wet wipes and carried out a deep cleaning using specialist kit, a spokesperson said, adding that \u201cthe issue of sewer abuse and the resulting flooding costs the company around \u00a35m a year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Last month, the Welsh government body Natural Resources Wales (NRW) found that in 2024, D\u0175r Cymru was responsible for the highest number of sewage pollution incidents in a decade \u2013 a 42% increase over 10 years. Six serious incidents were recorded, down from seven in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">D\u0175r Cymru has faced a slew of legal and regulatory action, including a \u00a340m fine in March 2024 from Ofwat which concluded the company had \u201cmisled customers and regulators on its performance on leakage and per capita consumption\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Urgent changes to the sector promised by NRW include a new monitoring team, guidance on hitting improvement targets linked to new pollution reduction legislation and a tightened framework for annual performance assessments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Under UK government plans to scrap Ofwat, Wales is to get its own water watchdog. It is not yet clear whether this will be a new organisation or whether NRW will take on an expanded role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Senedd member has demanded that D\u0175r Cymru, or Welsh Water, invest more money in pumping stations after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-326113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114989440895287895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326113","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=326113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}