November Sewage Pollution in South West England
After a long dry spell it has started raining once again in South West England. This evening South West Water's WaterFit Live map of combined sewer overflow activations looks like…
After a long dry spell it has started raining once again in South West England. This evening South West Water's WaterFit Live map of combined sewer overflow activations looks like…
The Met Office has issued a series of yellow weather warnings for heavy rain across Devon and Cornwall, from the evening of Wednesday September 4th until midnight on Friday September…
There's been a few dryish days recently. Consequently you might expect South West Water's WaterFit Live map to be free of sewage pollution indications. However, sadly that is not the…
The May bank holiday is rapidly approaching, RNLI lifeguards are now patrolling the beaches of Devon and Cornwall and the Environment Agency has started issuing pollution risk warnings for designated bathing beaches. Here’s how their map looks today:
Here too is today’s WaterFit Live map from South West Water:
Meadfoot beach in Torbay isn’t “red flagged” on SWW’s map, but according to the Environment Agency there has been a sewage pollution incident affecting the beach today:
Here is this morning’s WaterFit Live map:
Here’s what South West Water’s WaterFit Live map looked like on the morning of April 20th:
The combined sewer overflow activation at Portreath finished in the early hours of the morning:
That was followed by a sewage “spill” at Fowey on April 22nd:
Since then we’ve had a few dry days. However, after an all too brief interlude there’s been a bit of rain over the last two days. It therefore comes as no surprise to impart the news that all of a sudden there are several orange pushpins on this afternoon’s WaterFit Live map. revealing plenty of sewage pollution along the south coasts of Devon and Cornwall once again:
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