The Environment Agency has issued advice against bathing at Viking Bay in Broadstairs and Fulsam Rock in Margate due to the likelihood of reduced water quality.
The impact on quality is due to heavy rainfall resulting in surface water – which can become contaminated – running off directly into the sea.
Thanet council has put signs out at both beaches to let people know that swimming is not advised.
The reduced water quality is not due to a discharge of foul sewage, it refers to surface runoff.
