{"id":69344,"date":"2025-08-15T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69344\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:22:07","slug":"exmouth-beachgoers-told-to-exit-water-due-to-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69344\/","title":{"rendered":"Exmouth beachgoers told to exit water due to sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Devon District Council (EDDC) said a pollution incident reporting tool (PIRT) was issued as a precaution by the Environment Agency due to &#8220;elevated ammonia levels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency said: &#8220;South West Water are supporting this action by checking their assets, including for any potential misconnections to their sewerage network in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EDDC said council officers lowered the blue flag and lifeguards would fly the red flag to advise against swimming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No swimming signs will also be displayed,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope we can remove these signs and the red flags as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SWW said: &#8220;The Environment Agency have assured us that they are thoroughly investigating and we will continue to support in any way we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Devon District Council (EDDC) said a pollution incident reporting tool (PIRT) was issued as a precaution by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69344","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\/69344","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=69344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}