Sea Water Quality
The beach is often littered with tidal-borne material that washes up from the Bristol Channel, and — like all other beaches in North Somerset — it has never received a European Blue Flag. However, since 2005 and 2006 DEFRA has rated the water quality as good.
The Marine Conservation Society has 'adopted' the beach and since 1999 has carried out four surveys of the beach annually. A 2004 survey reported that the beach had three times the national average quantity of sewage-related debris, with particularly high numbers of cotton bud sticks.
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