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

Raw sewage reported ‘seeping’ on to beach from Welsh Water pumping station

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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