{"id":694062,"date":"2026-07-16T02:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694062\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:39:21","slug":"portreath-residents-say-flood-plan-will-send-sewage-to-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694062\/","title":{"rendered":"Portreath residents say flood plan will send sewage to beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigner and civil engineer Ramzi Nasayev said the proposed scheme would only provide &#8220;a one in 20-year return resilience&#8221; despite its \u00a317m cost. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a higher level of protection should be possible and argued the project should reduce the flood risk further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the stream currently supported species including European eels and sticklebacks and warned that sewage discharges could damage the habitat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referring to children who played in the water near the beach, he said: &#8220;This will just be another way of getting more pollution onto the beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Portreath Flood Resilience Action Group, also said the project replaced an earlier proposal that focused on storing water upstream to reduce flood risk before it reached the village. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They believed that approach would have offered better protection while also improving water quality and protecting wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigner and civil engineer Ramzi Nasayev said the proposed scheme would only provide &#8220;a one in 20-year return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694062","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\/694062","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=694062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}