{"id":604088,"date":"2026-05-26T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:47:00","slug":"east-cowes-swimming-restrictions-due-to-sewage-in-sea-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604088\/","title":{"rendered":"East Cowes swimming restrictions due to sewage in sea lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Untreated sewage poured into streets and gardens at East Cowes after a large pipe burst<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce3p727vx60o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a week ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the burst Southern Water started discharging into the sea, for a total of more than eight hours, with the last release ending at 00.46 BST on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2194q0xrzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Repairs were completed<\/a> to the burst sewage pipe in Millfield Avenue on Wednesday morning and the road reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Signs warning swimmers of poor water quality were subsequently put up on the beaches by Isle of Wight Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said in a previous statement: &#8220;As there is an ongoing impact on water quality, we have issued advice against bathing in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are continuing to investigate the incident and will not hesitate to take further action if required.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Untreated sewage poured into streets and gardens at East Cowes after a large pipe burst a week ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604088","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\/604088","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=604088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}