Multiple people have reportedly fallen ill after entering a West Sussex lake. <\/p>\n
Horsham District Council told the BBC it knew of online reports that a “number of individuals have experienced illness, potentially as a result of entering the water at the paddling beach at Southwater Country Park”.<\/p>\n
It added it had not received any official notifications from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) or groups that used the lake regularly. <\/p>\n
However, the local authority said the paddling beach would be closed while it monitored the situation.<\/p>\n
“We will release further information if the situation changes,” it continued. <\/p>\n
“Please do not climb the fence or attempt to enter the water at this time”. <\/p>\n
It comes amid a period of hot weather, which has seen people flock to rivers, lakes and the sea across the country. <\/p>\n
Southwater Watersports Centre said it was postponing all its activities until 6 July “to fall in line” with the council. <\/p>\n
“Over the last week, we have had… a massive amount of people at the beach area – all potentially leading to increased impact on the lake, including the lakebed being agitated, human impurities, as well as the heat potentially increasing pathogen production,” it added.<\/p>\n
“This may have created an impact on the environment in the short term.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple people have reportedly fallen ill after entering a West Sussex lake. Horsham District Council told the BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664951","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=664951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}