{"id":583208,"date":"2026-05-14T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:17:08","slug":"why-does-guernsey-dump-raw-sewage-into-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583208\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Guernsey dump raw sewage into the sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirteen of Guernsey&#8217;s beaches have their water quality monitored regularly by Environmental Health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Havelet Bay, which is north of Soldier&#8217;s Bay, was rated as excellent in September last year while Fermain, which is south of the outfall, was also rated excellent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite this, swimmers at the bathing pools said it made them reluctant to swim near the Soldier&#8217;s Bay outfall, which lies to the south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry, who swims there every day, said &#8220;it was pretty disgusting and not brilliant to see so close to where people are swimming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harriet, who was having a coffee at the pools, said she was &#8220;quite shocked&#8221; the Soldier&#8217;s Bay outfall existed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Joanna Hemans, who was visiting the sauna across the road, said while she was aware sewage was pumped out to sea in Guernsey she &#8220;didn&#8217;t realise it was at bay level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful area, knowing there is sewage just around the corner of the bay does sadden me a bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I won&#8217;t be going under the water if I go outside the bathing pools and I&#8217;ll definitely be having a shower after swims.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirteen of Guernsey&#8217;s beaches have their water quality monitored regularly by Environmental Health. Havelet Bay, which is north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583208","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=583208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}