Following the heavy rain of the last two nights, Surfers against sewage are reporting many incidents of “Storm sewage” being discharged from a sewer overflow within the past 48 hours.
At time of publishing, Totland Bay, Colwell, Gurnard, Cowes, Ryde, Seagrove, St Helens, Bembridge, Yaverland and Sandown are all listed by Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) as having experienced incidents.
What Southern Water say
Meanwhile Southern Water’s (SW) Beach Buoy Website also reports many incidents around the Island.
The Beach Buoy service seems to take longer to update than the SAS site. Differing from the data showing this morning when the article was first published, by this afternoon SW report eight 8 incidents of a “Release to bathing site in the last 24 hours”, which are classified as “A Southern Water release may be affecting water quality”.
These are for recorded for Colwell, Totland, Cowes, Gurnard, Ryde, Seagrove, St Helens and Bembridge as can be seen below.
It also reports three “Unverified release to bathing site” incidents for Sandown, Yaverland and Whitecliff Bay.
Environment Agency
The Environment Agency have no alerts at time of publishing.
Article edit
2.20pm 6th Sep 2022 – Updated the releases from SW – which increased from three releases in the last 24 hours to eight.
