List of English bathing sites failing water quality standards in 2024
The number of bathing waters rated poor jumped as a series of newly designated sites were monitored for the first time.
By contributor By Emily Beament, PA Environment Correspondent
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New figures show one in 12 English bathing waters failed water quality testing and were rated “poor” this year, around 8% of all those monitored.
They account for 4.5% of beaches, rivers and lakes that were already designated as official bathing sites before the 2024 season, and 18 of the 27 sites newly designated this year (67%), which had not been previously sampled or managed as bathing waters.
