Water quality at Viking Bay in Broadstairs has the all clear today (August 4) following three days of being flagged as a pollution risk by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency makes daily pollution risk forecasts and will issue the warning against bathing in the sea when water quality is forecast to reduce. This can be based on factors such as heavy rainfall or strong winds.
A warning against bathing was initially issued on August 1 and then again for the following two days.
Contamination can come from a range of sources including surface water outfall, run off from roofs, roads, driveways and pavements and other debris.
Rain, tide, wind, sunlight and seasonality can affect the levels of bacteria that get washed into the sea from livestock, sewage and urban drainage via rivers and streams and how they disperse.
Today the water has the all clear.
