The work comes ahead of a tightening of European bathing water standards in 2015.
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Saltburn failed to meet the European "mandatory" level of cleanness for bathing water in 2010 and 2012.
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We recognised the importance of bathing water quality to the local communities around Thanet and beach users.
Heavy summer downpours have been blamed for a dip in top quality bathing water at Scotland's beaches.
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The DOE's Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) monitor 16 identified bathing waters under the EC Bathing Water Directive.
The wettest summer on record has been blamed for a Weston-super-Mare beach failing a bathing water quality test.
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The contribution of diffuse sources of pollution to bathing water failures, both rural and urban, is being investigated.
Bathing water quality at Portstewart Strand and Portrush East Strand has been either excellent or good during that time.
Torbay Council said test results showed bathing water quality had not been affected.
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Bathing water will be ranked in three categories - "excellent", "good" and "sufficient".
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It was found that bathing water quality at Portrush West Strand has been consistently excellent since monitoring began in 1988.
Torbay Council said initial samples taken by the Environment Agency after the sewage pumping showed bathing water quality had not been affected.
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Water quality must also have reached the microbiological Guideline Standards of the Bathing Water Directive - the highest defined by European Law.
Northumbrian Water said it was confident the steps would improve the bathing water, but added there were sources of pollution beyond its control.
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The plan is to complete the work by September 2015, ready for when the new bathing water season starts on 15 May 2016.
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After surveys of high litter levels and poor bathing water quality in the past, he set up special "beach summits" to try to tackle the problem.
Wednesday also marks the start of the bathing water season during which teams from Natural Resources Wales will collect 2, 000 samples over the season from 100 designated beaches.
In November 2005 a privately-owned beach at Instow in north Devon was the only one of the South West's 143 beaches which failed to meet EU bathing water standards.
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In March, wet weather was also blamed for a fall in the number of Welsh beaches reaching the top EU bathing water standard in the Marine Conservation Society's Good Beach Guide.
Although the bacteria was not at a high enough level to pose a risk to people, the agency said it would affect bathing water classifications for 2013, due to be announced later in the year.
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The rest of the UK has had one of the best years on record for bathing water quality in the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) guide, but the number of Scottish beaches rated as excellent dipped by 5% from the 2011 figure.
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He spoke less, and mostly about the old man: how he could not afford bathing water, how the others made fun of him or accused him of hiding his son, how the chief ignored him, how he looked frightened and so terribly small.
This was partly due to a lower level of infrastructure at the time of privatisation, but also due to the fact the region "has been significantly more burdened by the cost of the Bathing Water Directive than any other region in the country", he told MPs.
This covers bathing and washing water, well over the amount I actually imbibe.
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The research talks about the pilgrims bathing in the cold water with "relish, serenity and silent stoicism".
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Customers have been advised to boil tap water before using it and to take care when bathing young children to avoid them swallowing the water.
To one side sits the Baltic, offering bathing in summer (the water temperature climbs as high as 75 degrees).
Bottled drinking water and alternative bathing facilities have been provided.
The city council said on Saturday that a chemical-clean of the water system was taking longer than the expected 36 hours, and that bottled drinking water and alternative bathing facilities were being provided.
Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.
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