{"id":606206,"date":"2026-05-27T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:41:11","slug":"sea-turns-brown-at-world-famous-north-wales-beach-loved-by-mancunians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606206\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea turns brown at world-famous north Wales beach loved by Mancunians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concerns were raised a pollution incident had taken place<\/p>\n

Steve Bagnall and Tom Burnett Content Editor<\/p>\n

23:06, 26 May 2026Updated 07:40, 27 May 2026<\/p>\n

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The sea turned brown at Porthdinllaen beach(Image: James Tatham)<\/p>\n

This is the moment the sea turned brown at a popular north Wales holiday beach loved by Mancunians over the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

The murky water at Porthdinllaen in Gwynedd sparked fears over the weekend that a sewage leak had taken place at the famous North Wales beach.<\/p>\n

However Natural Resources Wales [NRW] has now confirmed this was not the case, and the discolouration was actually caused by algae, NorthWalesLive reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

Arfon Hughes, environment team leader for NRW, said: \u201cOur officers received reports of potential pollution at Porthdinllaen beach over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

“Upon inspection, this was found to be a type of non-toxic algae called Phaeocystis \u2013 one of the most common bloom-forming algae in our coastal waters.<\/p>\n

“The blooms can form a brown, frothy scum that is harmless and may be influenced by recent sunlight and warmer temperatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone with concerns about potential pollution can report them to us by calling our 24\/7 incident communication line on 0300 065 3000 or by using our online incident form<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porthdinllaen has a sweeping sandy bay sheltered by the Carreg Ddu headland. It is famed for its beach pub, Ty Coch, which has been named among the best beach bars in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerns were raised a pollution incident had taken place Steve Bagnall and Tom Burnett Content Editor 23:06, 26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55,1220],"class_list":["post-606206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606206","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=606206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}