{"id":541492,"date":"2026-04-20T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:35:19","slug":"sewage-pollutes-teignmouth-beach-for-more-than-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541492\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage pollutes Teignmouth beach for more than two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An EA spokesperson said: &#8220;The source of the pollution has been identified as a leak from a foul sewer into a surface water drain and South West Water are completing repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will remove our advice against bathing 24 hours after we have confirmation that the pollution has stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FORT said it reported the issue to the EA on 29 March after volunteers saw sewage and toilet paper flowing from a culvert into the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group said the Environment Agency had issued a beach warning for Shaldon on 10 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A FORT spokesperson said: &#8220;This is a significant incident that has been continuing for nearly three weeks, including over the Easter school holiday, one of the busiest times of the year for tourism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are pleased that the Environment Agency and South West Water are working to resolve this but incidents like these are very damaging to our local communities in Teignmouth and Shaldon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EA spokesperson said: &#8220;The source of the pollution has been identified as a leak from a foul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}