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Beaches: Sewage

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL15912, tabled on 22 May 2019

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent the leaking of sewage onto beaches at (1) Sunderland, and (2) Whitburn.

Answered on

4 June 2019

Continuous improvements have been made to the sewerage system in the area, with the latest being the completion of a scheme to reduce storm sewage discharges from the Whitburn long sea outfall in December 2017. This has reduced the frequency in discharges from the system by around 40% compared to the average from the old system.