Gorleston<\/a> so far this year.\n<\/p>\n\n The popular beach has been named among the best in the country and in Europe by a variety of news outlets.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, this leak means that Gorleston beach has seen a sewage leak, on average, more than once every 1.5 weeks.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sewage overspills are normally triggered by periods of rainfall, which result in storm overflow systems discharging into the sea.\n<\/p>\n
\n Earlier this summer, a spokesman for Anglian Water said: \u201cWe know our customers and communities feel strongly that storm overflow discharges are unacceptable, and we agree.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur long-term goal is to completely stop using storm overflows, but getting there isn\u2019t something we can do overnight.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019ve already removed more than 340 storm overflows from our network entirely, and we\u2019re investing \u00a31 billion between now and 2030 to tackle storm spills by installing more stormwater storage and preventing rain and groundwater from getting into our pipes to begin with, making storm overflow activations less likely.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n An Anglian Water spokesman said: “We know our customers and communities feel strongly that storm overflow discharges are unacceptable, and we agree.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Storm overflows have been part of the sewer system for decades, and they were originally designed to protect homes and businesses from internal sewer flooding during heavy rainfall \u2013 something they still do today.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our long-term goal is to completely stop using storm overflows, but getting there isn\u2019t something we can do overnight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorleston and East Runton have seen sewage discharged into the sea from storm overflows. The alerts have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746846","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\/746846","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=746846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}