{"id":74595,"date":"2025-08-17T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:06:09","slug":"swimming-allowed-again-at-exmouth-beach-following-sewage-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74595\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming allowed again at Exmouth Beach following sewage warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Advice against swimming at a beach in Devon has been lifted following a warning about sewage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The agency said it was investigating after it detected <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly61855xepo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;elevated readings of ammonia&#8221;<\/a> at Exmouth Beach on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A spokesperson said the pollution had been found at Littleham Brook, which flows into the sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It said: &#8220;Our monitoring confirms that water quality returned to normal [on Friday] and is remaining stable so the precautionary advice against bathing has been lifted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The agency said South West Water was supporting its continuing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The water company has been contacted for comment but said on Friday that it had not had any storm overflow spills in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advice against swimming at a beach in Devon has been lifted following a warning about sewage. The agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-74595","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\/74595","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=74595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}