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The Environment Agency has worked together with partners to invest £5.59m in environmental improvements across Yorkshire in 2020/21.
Final year before bathing waters have to meet new water quality standards which are twice as strict.
8 beaches in Cornwall and a beach in Bournemouth have been designated as bathing waters.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Employment Tribunal decision.
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Judge Auerbach on 17 June 2021.
The Environment Agency, Teignbridge District Council and East Devon District Council are working on a beach management project that will look at two key locations on both sides of the estuary, Exmouth and Dawlish Warren.
Update for those going to the coast
From this week, the Environment Agency begins the annual water quality testing at over 400 popular bathing beaches.
Dounreay has modified the equipment used to detect radioactive particles on beaches near the site.
The £14 million beach management scheme moves a step closer to completion in Devon.
All 34 of the bathing waters in the North East have been classed as either ‘excellent’ or ‘good’, passing high standards for water quality.
LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) and GRAHAM Construction link up on World Environment Day for Beach Clean at Drigg.
Environment Agency contractors start work today on annual maintenance of the shingle embankment and beach between Snettisham and Hunstanton.
Litter pick benefits wildlife and visitors at Druridge Bay
Workers will follow the government's coronavirus guidance while undertaking the project, which reduces the risk of flooding to homes and businesses.
Emergency flood defence repair work to damage caused this year by a succession of winters storms on Chesil Beach in Portland, Dorset, will be completed on 2 October 2014 by the Environment Agency and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council.
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