{"id":24478,"date":"2025-07-26T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24478\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:29:10","slug":"sewage-leak-at-aberdeen-beach-leads-to-swimming-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24478\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage leak at Aberdeen beach leads to swimming warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">People are being advised to avoid swimming and paddling at Aberdeen beach after sewage was discharged into the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The spill happened during a power outage at Nigg Waste Water Treatment Works, which also caused a power cut in the area on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said power had been restored but confirmed sewage was discharged into the sea close to Aberdeen harbour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A spokesperson said its &#8220;temporary guidance&#8221; was to avoid bathing in the area until it was satisfied that the situation had returned to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are being advised to avoid swimming and paddling at Aberdeen beach after sewage was discharged into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-24478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}