Sea safe for swimming in most areas

Friday 8th August 2008, 2:29PM BST.

THE water around most the island is now safe for swimming.

The only areas where it is not are Bordeaux, the Victoria Marina and Fermain.

John Cook, the director of Environmental Health, made the announcement after considering the results of the water quality samples received yesterday.

‘The results indicate that the cautionary warning given on Monday can now be lifted,’ he said.

The samples taken at 14 sites showed that they had all achieved the minimum standard for coliforms under the EU directive concerning the quality of bathing water. Of these, 11 achieved the standard for bathing water quality on these elements of the test.