Sewage or other incidents affecting water at beaches in North Wales
The Safer Seas and Rivers Service, provided by the charity, offers water quality information at surf and swim spots across 600 UK locations.
This is where people have been advised not to swim:
Pollution Alert: Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours. Situated on the North Wales coastline, below the Great Orme, the bay faces west over Conwy Sands. The beach is long and sandy with a stony pebble foreshore, backed by a concrete promenade. It is potentially impacted by a number of storm and emergency overflows, both along the immediate foreshore and within the main freshwater from the Conwy. This location is covered by Pollution Risk Forecasting.
Pollution Alert: Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours. A long sandy beach that stretches over 8km from Kinmel Bay to Llanddulas. The water has a large tidal range and is gently sloping from the low tide mark to the high tide pebble area.
Bathing not advised due to Poor annual classification. Rhyl is located approximately one kilometre north east of the River Clwyd, within a long sandy stretch of beach, which extends over 2.5 kilometres from the Clwyd Estuary to Splash Point.
Risk of reduced water quality due to heavy rain. The bay is located approximately two-kilometres west of the River Clwyd, within a long sandy stretch of beach, which extends over 8 kilometres, from Kinmel Bay to Llanddulas. The beach has a large tidal range and is gently sloping from the low tide mark to the high tide pebbled area. The water quality sample point lies to the east of the Golden Sands Holiday Camp.
Pollution Alert: Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours. Located on the east coast of Anglesey, to the west side of Red Wharf Bay, the St David´s beach is sandy in nature. The beach is located in the Anglesey Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Trwyn Dwlban Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is also 250 metres shoreward of the Menai Straits and Conwy Bay Special Area of Conservation.
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