Water quality results for Kent beaches revealed

Water quality results for Kent beaches revealed as swimming ban at Deal to be lifted

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00:00So the Environment Agency is responsible for doing the sampling, so monitoring the

00:04quality of our bathing waters during the bathing water season, so that's the

00:08middle of May to the end of September every year. Our samplers go out, take

00:13some samples and then our labs analyse those results. So it takes four years

00:18worth of data which is pulled together by clever statisticians who will then

00:23classify the the general water quality of a bathing water for that year.

00:29It's an absolutely fantastic result for this year, so really a testament to the

00:34partnership working that's gone on at Dealcastle. So lots of intelligence from

00:42the community, from the councils and us working with the water company, all that

00:48work has kind of pulled together to really see the improvements. It's fantastic that

00:54it's jumped from poor to good, just really shows that the work that's been

00:59carried out has made a significant difference and it's the results in

01:04themselves that demonstrate that the water quality was so much improved this

01:10year that it's managed to get up to good rather than go to sufficient which is

01:13fantastic. The community know their rivers, they know their sea, if they see

01:18something untoward then to please report it to us because the more intelligence that

01:23we have, the quicker we can be to sorting out the problem. So yeah anything

01:29that's identified, if they can report to us that would be brilliant.