{"id":764766,"date":"2026-09-09T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764766\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:42:19","slug":"new-pollution-alert-and-no-swim-warning-at-hunstanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764766\/","title":{"rendered":"New pollution alert and no swim warning at Hunstanton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Hunstanton is the latest beach to be affected, with the Environment Agency (EA) advising against bathing due to a short-term pollution risk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The warning follows similar alerts at Heacham, where an incident was reported last Thursday is still in force.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The EA&#8217;s website said: &#8220;This bathing water is subject to short term pollution procedures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The Environment Agency makes a daily pollution risk forecast at this site based on the effects of rain, tide, wind and seasonality on bathing water quality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The water off Heacham has been rated poor and people warned no to swim again (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;After a short term pollution event, levels of bacteria typically return to normal after a day or so but it\u2019s possible to have several warning days in a row.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Heavy rain on the coast has been identified as a contributing factor, washing bacteria from wild animals, livestock and urban drainage into the sea.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The water at Hunstanton&#8217;s beaches is usually rated &#8220;good&#8221; by the EA, while Heacham\u2019s were rated &#8220;adequate&#8221; last November after years of poor water quality blamed on sea birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunstanton is the latest beach to be affected, with the Environment Agency (EA) advising against bathing due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764766","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\/764766","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=764766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}