Three seashores well-liked with households in Cornwall named the ‘dirtiest in UK’

Cornwall hit headlines due to raw sewage alerts off its coast, as 80 percent of its beaches received a “sewage pollution alert” last month.

According to the group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) which monitors water quality across 68 beaches in the region, 33 beaches received the warning, with 21 others receiving a “pollution risk forecast”.

Because of heavy rainfall, water runoff saw human and animal waste, fertilisers, and pesticides pour into waterways such as rivers.

Contaminated river water eventually reaches the sea, where it can sit on the surface and makes it dangerous to enter the water.

The region’s water firm, South West Water, was fined £2.1m for air pollution offences in Devon and Cornwall courting from July 2016 to August 2020.

Rubbish removing firm, Clear It Waste, discovered three of the UK’s dirtiest seashores to be in Cornwall.

The examine checked out greater than 400 seashores throughout the UK analyzing components together with sewage and micro organism, together with E.coli, current within the water.

Ranking within the high 5 ‘dirtiest seashores’ within the UK have been Porthluney, Par Sands and Long Rock Beach.

Long Rock Beach ranked fifth within the desk with a water cleanliness rating of seven.97/10. This is regardless of its excessive common depend of E.faecalis measuring 262 cfu/100 ml, in accordance with Cornwall Live.

One TripAdvisor person, Aequitas6, stated the seaside was “a bit dirty and smelly”. They stated: “You wouldn’t want to lie out here or go swimming. It gets quite small when the tide is in…. Unless you are desperate to walk your dog here go somewhere else.”

Cornwall’s Par Sands was fourth within the rankings and has an total water cleanliness rating of seven.81/10. This is regardless of having the bottom E.faecalis depend within the Southwest (80 cfu/100 ml) and it additionally boasts the bottom E.Coli depend within the Southwest (38 cfu/100 ml).

Users on the TripAdvisor platform additionally say the seaside “feels dirty”. Reviewer, cltc43, says the seaside is a mix of “sand, gravel and mud”.

They defined: “When the tide is out, looks quite unappealing, especially as it appears dirty and is dominated by dog walkers.”

Cornwall’s Porthluney Beach has the best rating within the area, coming second on the ‘dirtiest seashores within the UK’ checklist, with an total water cleanliness rating of seven.55/10. With a mean depend of 75 cfu/100 ml of E.coli within the water, Porthluney’s water was assessed and categorized by the Environment Agency again in 2022.

SAS highlighted the impacted beaches have been Portmellon, East Looe, Seaton, Mawgan Porth and Haryln Bay this weekend with an alert on Saturday. The alert stated: “Storm sewage has been discharged from a sewer overflow in this location within the past 48 hours.”