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What are this year’s bathing water classifications? 

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Today, 26 November, the Environment Agency and Defra published the annual classifications of bathing water sites in England.   The results follow testing of England’s 450 designated sites throughout the May to September bathing season. 92% of bathing waters in England …

Bathing water classifications and short-term pollution

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4. Environment Agency staff member in the sea taking a sample of the water.

Our blog on 1 February explained how we approach monitoring, sampling and testing of bathing waters and our approach to keeping public informed and warned when there are short term risks of pollution which bathers would rightly want to be …

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