{"id":668661,"date":"2026-07-01T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:54:09","slug":"public-warned-to-avoid-polluted-water-at-fife-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668661\/","title":{"rendered":"Public warned to avoid polluted water at Fife beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Environmental inspectors have warned the public to avoid entering the water at a beach in Fife due to &#8220;localised pollution&#8221; in a stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said water quality in the Kinghorn Burn had been found to be &#8220;intermittently poor&#8221; during recent testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The watchdog said the water, which flows under the town into Kinghorn harbour beach, could be a risk to human and animal health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Scottish Water said local water quality issues had been &#8220;uniquely complex and challenging&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Temporary signage has been placed around the beach warning against coming into contact with the water until the quality improves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone who becomes unwell following contact with the water is asked to seek medical advice from NHS24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environmental inspectors have warned the public to avoid entering the water at a beach in Fife due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668661","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\/668661","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=668661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}