{"id":271661,"date":"2026-02-07T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:44:07","slug":"canterbury-swimming-spots-closed-after-sewage-contamination-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271661\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury swimming spots closed after sewage contamination warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Swimming in the water in the meantime risks contact with bacteria and other pathogens, said Dr Imogen Evans, public health medicine specialist for the National Public Health Service.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Four Canterbury bays have been closed under a sewage contamination health warning. Image \/ Health New Zealand\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Four Canterbury bays have been closed under a sewage contamination health warning. Image \/ Health New Zealand<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWater contaminated by human matter may contain a range of disease-carrying micro-organisms such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Residents should also avoid eating shellfish harvested at the bays and must gut and wash fish in clean water before consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimming in the water in the meantime risks contact with bacteria and other pathogens, said Dr Imogen Evans,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,17094,682,8126,5201,17308,40176,3011,111,43,139,69,10903,530,42308,10041,17933,153610,8222,1455,102],"class_list":["post-271661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-avoid","tag-being","tag-canterbury","tag-closed","tag-contaminated","tag-contamination","tag-four","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-residents","tag-sewage","tag-spots","tag-swimming","tag-untreated","tag-warned","tag-warning","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}