Reported in yesterday's newspaper:
"The quality of Britain's beaches have been boosted by one of the driest
winters of the decade. The annual "Good Beach Guide", published by the
Marine Conservation Society (MCS), praised more than 500 of the 800 bathing
beaches in the UK for excellent water quality, compared with the previous
record of 453.
The driest weather in England and Wales since 1995 substantially reduced the
amount of storm pollution in the sea during weekly tests between May and
September last year, the society said.
The North-east was pinpointed as the region with the cleanest beaches, with
67% of all beaches recommended, an increase put down to drier weather and
infrastructure investment by water companies."
Not all bad news then.
I would expect this to be the case but I don't understand the correlation
between " a dry winter" and "tests between May and September". The bacterial
pollution caused by any storm overflows in winter would have been attenuated
by the following summer, I would have thought.

Dave

Dave

"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Reported in yesterday's newspaper:
"The quality of Britain's beaches have been boosted by one of the driest
winters of the decade. The annual "Good Beach Guide", published by the
Marine Conservation Society (MCS), praised more than 500 of the 800
bathing
beaches in the UK for excellent water quality, compared with the previous
record of 453.
The driest weather in England and Wales since 1995 substantially reduced
the
amount of storm pollution in the sea during weekly tests between May and
September last year, the society said.
The North-east was pinpointed as the region with the cleanest beaches,
with
67% of all beaches recommended, an increase put down to drier weather and
infrastructure investment by water companies."
Not all bad news then.
I would expect this to be the case but I don't understand the correlation
between " a dry winter" and "tests between May and September". The
bacterial
pollution caused by any storm overflows in winter would have been
attenuated
by the following summer, I would have thought.


it may be that the dry winter reduced pollution coming down stream from land
based sources, there would be less run off and similar. A lot of this ends
up washing back around the beach

Jim Webster

Dave.C wrote:

I would expect this to be the case but I don't understand the correlation
between " a dry winter" and "tests between May and September". The bacterial
pollution caused by any storm overflows in winter would have been attenuated
by the following summer, I would have thought.

Is it something to do with the lack of storms then?

"Dave.C" wrote in message
. uk...
Reported in yesterday's newspaper:
"The quality of Britain's beaches have been boosted by one of the driest
winters of the decade. The annual "Good Beach Guide", published by the
Marine Conservation Society (MCS), praised more than 500 of the 800
bathing
beaches in the UK for excellent water quality, compared with the previous
record of 453.
The driest weather in England and Wales since 1995 substantially reduced
the
amount of storm pollution in the sea during weekly tests between May and
September last year, the society said.
The North-east was pinpointed as the region with the cleanest beaches,
with
67% of all beaches recommended, an increase put down to drier weather and
infrastructure investment by water companies."
Not all bad news then.
I would expect this to be the case but I don't understand the correlation
between " a dry winter" and "tests between May and September". The
bacterial
pollution caused by any storm overflows in winter would have been
attenuated
by the following summer, I would have thought.

Dave

Dave

Well there you are Dave, there's something good in everything. All the
doomsayers, all the drought alarmist, all the Ghouls that see the worst in
everything.

Every shroud has a silver lining.

Boom bloody boom.

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
. uk...
Reported in yesterday's newspaper:
"The quality of Britain's beaches have been boosted by one of the driest
winters of the decade. The annual "Good Beach Guide", published by the
Marine Conservation Society (MCS), praised more than 500 of the 800
bathing
beaches in the UK for excellent water quality, compared with the
previous
record of 453.
The driest weather in England and Wales since 1995 substantially reduced
the
amount of storm pollution in the sea during weekly tests between May and
September last year, the society said.
The North-east was pinpointed as the region with the cleanest beaches,
with
67% of all beaches recommended, an increase put down to drier weather
and
infrastructure investment by water companies."
Not all bad news then.
I would expect this to be the case but I don't understand the
correlation
between " a dry winter" and "tests between May and September". The
bacterial
pollution caused by any storm overflows in winter would have been
attenuated
by the following summer, I would have thought.

Dave

Dave

Well there you are Dave, there's something good in everything. All the
doomsayers, all the drought alarmist, all the Ghouls that see the worst in
everything.

Every shroud has a silver lining.

Boom bloody boom.

I'm just glad you believe it Lawrence ;-)