Sign up now to the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) ‘sewage alert service’ for free, and they will text you when sewage is discharged from a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO).
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So what are CSOs and does this information really matter?. A CSO is a Combined Sewage Overflow drain. When a sewage pumping station or treatment works is over capacity, the water companies use the CSOs as an emergency exit for raw sewage and rainwater.
CSOs obviously play an important role in the sewage infrastructure. However, SAS have discovered “they are used far too often to dispose of raw sewage rather than water companies treating the sewage”. These emergency systems are being abused by water companies and are causing potential health threats to water users.
So if you want to be notified the next time raw sewage is flushed out at a surf spot near you; sign up to the sewage alert service and make an informed choice about where to get wet.
SAS are campaigning for all bathing waters in the UK that have CSOs discharging sewage, to be included in the Sewage Alert Service. But for now you can sign up top any of the beaches listed below, by visiting the Surfers Against Sewage website.
• Broadhaven Central (Wales)
• Newgale (Wales)
• Manorbier (Wales)
• Sandown (IoW)
• Ventnor (IoW)
• Shanklin (IoW)
• Hayling Island Beachlands (South coast)
• Bognor Regis East (South Coast)
• Littlehampton Coastguards (South coast)
• Botnay Bay (South East)
• Joss Bay (South East)
• Westbrook Bay (South East)
• Clevedon (Bristol)
• Weston Super Mare
• Burnham Jetty (nr Weston Super Mare)
• Dunster North West (Somerset North coast)
• Blue Anchor West (Somerset North coast)
• Minehead
• Chirstchurch Mudeford Sandbanks (Poole)
• Bournemouth Boscombe Pier
• Bournemouth Hengistbury West
• Bournemouth Pier
• Poole Shore Road Beach
• Weymouth Central
• Poole Harbour Sandbanks
• Swanage Central (South coast)
• Bournemouth Fishermans Walk
• Branksome Chine (nr Bouremouth)
• Saltburn
• Bude (Cornwall)
• Crantock (Cornwall)
• Porthleven (Cornwall)
• Godrevy (Cornwall)
• Porthminster (Cornwall)
• Porthtowan (Cornwall)
• Gyllyngvase (Cornwall)
• Polzeath (Cornwall)
• Bantham (Devon)
• Challaborough (Devon)
• Croyde Bay (Devon)
• Westward Ho! (Devon)
• Tunnels Beaches (Devon)
• Bigbury-on-Sea North (Devon)
• Woolacombe Village (Devon)
• Breakwater Beach (Torbay)
• Meadfoot (Torbay)
• Oddicombe (Torbay)
• Broadsands (Torbay)
• Paignton Paignton Sands (Torbay)
• Paignton Preston Sands (Torbay)
• Salcombe South Sands (South Hams)
• Blackpool Sands (Devon)
• Dawlish Warren (Teignbridge)