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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: Raw sewage reported seeping on to beach from welsh water pumping station | History Defined

The sea lapping the pebbly West Shore beach
West Shore beach near Llandudno. Welsh Water said the leak had been caused by a blockage but the ‘foul water’ did not reach the beach or enter the water. Photograph: Howard Litherland/Alamy

A Senedd member has demanded that Dŵr Cymru, or Welsh Water, invest more money in pumping stations after beachgoers reported raw sewage “seeping” on to a popular beach in north Wales during the peak of the school summer holidays.

The effluent ran on to West Shore, near Llandudno, from under the roller-shutter door of a pumping station at the beach’s car park, Janet Finch-Saunders, MS for Aberconwy, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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