{"id":801757,"date":"2026-10-14T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801757\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:02:09","slug":"new-sewage-discharge-at-cattewater-as-people-urged-to-avoid-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801757\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;sewage discharge&#8217; at Cattewater as people urged to avoid water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cattewater Harbour has put out an alert on social media<\/p>\n<p>16:49, 13 Oct 2026Updated 16:51, 13 Oct 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cattewater\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0_Screenshot-2026-10-13-160927.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Cattewater\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Cattewater(Image: Google )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Yet another sewage pollution incident has been reported in Plymouth, with members of the public urged to not enter the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Cattewater Harbour reported a &#8220;sewage discharge&#8221; in the area at 2pm this afternoon (Tuesday, October 13).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The harbour has warned members of the public who enter the river for &#8220;watersports or other recreational use&#8221; to wait &#8220;at least two tidal cycles&#8221; before entering the water again &#8220;as water quality may be temporarily affected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The harbour also told members of the public to report any sightings or concerns to the harbour office, South West Water (SWW), and the Environment Agency (EA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At the time of reporting, the EA and SWW maps have no reported incidents in the Cattewater area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">However, SWW has warned people not to enter the water at East Hoe and West Hoe because of pollution from sewage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At both East and West Hoe, sewage pollution was reported around <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouthherald.co.uk\/news\/plymouth-news\/mp-disgusted-south-west-water-11193213\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1.30pm on October 9<\/a> and the water quality remains affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The SWW map only highlights the two Hoe locations and Devils Point (Firestone Bay) for people to check the water quality in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Only a matter of days ago, MP Luke Pollard said he was &#8220;disgusted&#8221; with SWW after swimmers were told not to enter the water at the Hoe for the second time in a week because of sewage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouthherald.co.uk\/news\/plymouth-news\/south-west-water-sentenced-today-11176219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herald reported<\/a> that the water company was fined almost \u00a38m after a number of pollution-related charges over six years in Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At Hooe Lake Sewage Pumping station near Plymouth, sewage was released on August 28, 2020, and continued for 88 hours over a Bank Holiday weekend until September 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hooe Lake is popular for watersports, as well as being a priority habitat with mudflats, open waters and plant species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In June this year the firm was fined a record \u00a31.853 million for drinking water failures in Brixham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cattewater Harbour has put out an alert on social media 16:49, 13 Oct 2026Updated 16:51, 13 Oct 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,263405,90,44084,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-hooe","tag-science","tag-south-west-water","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801757","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=801757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}