Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

Hythe Bay’s “no swim” problem didn’t start in the 2020s. It has a paper trail that runs from the mid-1970s, through the coliform “fail” tables of the 1980s, into the Environment Agency’s long-running investigations at Littlestone, from 1999, and right up to today’s E. coli headlines and advice-against-bathing signs.  In March 1975, the New Folkestone Society was already warning—bluntly—that this stretch of coast was “contaminated by untreated se…