Morecambe North

United Kingdom Coastal 3 - Sufficient

Morecambe North bathing water is at the northern end of the town's promenade which has heavy sea defences for most of its length. The bathing water beach is split into several smaller beaches by large groynes.

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Location

Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster District

Season

Designated bathing water since 1988. Official monitoring season runs from May to September.

Water Quality

Sufficient (2025). Assessed under rBWD

Risks

Prior to the 2015 bathing season United Utilities completed a significant programme of improvements to ten storm and emergency overflows in the Lancaster city centre area to protect bathing water quality.
To the north of Morecambe North at Bolton-le-Sands work to upgrade St Nicholas Lane Pumping Station to protect bathing water quality was completed in 2012. Across Morecambe Bay at Grange-over-Sands the Cart Lane Pumping Station was also upgraded in 2012 to protect bathing water.

Through United Utilities' improvement programme from 2015 to 2020 improvements to Hagg Lane storm overflow and Schola Green Pumping Station were planned. The scheme at Hagg Lane which included the construction of a new underground storm tank to reduce sewer spills into the River Keer, was completed in 2017. Works to build two stormwater storage tanks and a new pumped sewer at Schola Green Pumping Station were completed in 2019 and the convertion of existing tanks to tidal storage at Morecambe WwTWs will be completed in 2020.

Additionally the programme requires that storm overflows close to bathing waters have equipment installed to monitor spills to the environment. This will help to identify where bathing water improvements may be needed in the future.
This bathing water is included in the Surfers Against Sewage “Safer Seas Service”. This service can alert you to Combined Storm Sewer Overflow discharges via a phone App and in addition, it includes the Environment Agency Pollution Risk Forecast warnings where they are available. Further details of the service can be found at - http://www.sas.org.uk/safer-seas-service/ and via United Utilities website at http://www.unitedutilities.com/Bathing-Waters-Map.aspx.