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Can I swim at Westbrook Bay, Margate? Thanet, England · Coastal
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About this bathing water
Rating for last season Excellent (2025)
Water Coastal
Area Thanet, England
Monitored outfalls within 5km 5 (nearest 0.3km) Westbrook Bay, Margate was rated Excellent for 2025 — the highest of the four grades in the Bathing Water Regulations. That grade comes from bacterial samples taken over several seasons, so it describes the beach's record rather than the water on any given day.
The Environment Agency issues a pollution risk forecast for this beach every morning during the bathing season, and the water company publishes the status of its storm overflows every few minutes.
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Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales — daily pollution risk forecasts,
open pollution incidents and bathing water classifications
SEPA and DAERA — Scottish daily predictions and Northern Irish sampling
The EPA and local authorities in Ireland — statutory bathing restrictions
Eleven water companies — live storm overflow status for 18,600 monitored outfalls
Open-Meteo — rainfall
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