{"id":98032,"date":"2025-08-28T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98032\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:55:25","slug":"welsh-marina-turns-yellow-as-people-spot-foam-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98032\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh marina turns yellow as people spot foam in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea Marina was covered in a yellow foam over the weekend leading many to worry about pollution<\/p>\n<p>14:16, 25 Aug 2025Updated 14:16, 25 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_Shaurya-Shaurya.jpg\" alt=\"A yellowish foam-like discharge forming a layer on water below it\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>This yellow discharge in the Swansea Marina was first reported on August 23 and remained at least for a day<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Visitors to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/swansea-marina\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Swansea Marina<\/a> were shocked to find a thick yellow foam covering the River Tawe just underneath the city&#8217;s Trafalgar Bridge over the weekend. Speculation was rife on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/social-media\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media <\/a>about the nature of the foam and whether it was due to a sewage discharge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/welsh-water\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Welsh Water<\/a> has now clarified this was not a result of sewage pollution as they do not have a storm overflow in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/swansea\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Swansea<\/a> Marina. Instead the firm suggested the discharge could have been caused from other sources like highway drains or waste from boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The foam remained for at least a day and was visible until Sunday, August 24.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756360525_125_0_Shaurya-Shaurya.jpg\" alt=\"A yellowish, foam-like discharge forming a layer on water below it\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Welsh Water have confirmed it was not related to sewage pollution<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesman for Welsh Water said: &#8220;We are aware of yellow foam reported at Swansea Marina over the weekend.&#8221; Never miss a Swansea story by<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=8b6ed03c-aba3-4835-87de-9b626ca207d0&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> signing up to our newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They added: &#8220;This is not as a result of a sewage pollution as we do not have a storm overflow in Swansea Marina.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756360525_186_0_Shaurya-Shaurya.jpg\" alt=\"A yellowish, foam-like discharge forming a layer on water below it. It is flowing into a creek at the foot of a bridge\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Locals had been left perplexed and worried about river pollution upon seeing the discharge<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;There are a number of other reasons for a discharge of this nature including highway drains, waste from boats etc, and particularly during warmer <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/wales-weather\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weather<\/a> you can expect to see a lot more algal activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea Marina was covered in a yellow foam over the weekend leading many to worry about pollution 14:16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,2966,48142,56,54,55,25901],"class_list":{"0":"post-98032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-swansea","11":"tag-swansea-marina","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-welsh-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98032","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=98032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}