Can you swim at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow?

Yes. Excellent water quality and no sewage in the last 48 hours. Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow is a designated bathing water, so it is sampled and rated every season. This answer covers water quality only, not tides, currents or lifeguard cover.

What is the water quality like at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow?

Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow is rated Excellent in the regulator's latest annual classification, a percentile taken over readings from up to four bathing seasons. The most recent sample, taken 24 August 2026, showed 18 cfu/100ml of E. coli and 18 cfu/100ml of intestinal enterococci.

Has there been sewage at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow recently?

No. No storm overflow within ten kilometres of Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow has discharged in the last 48 hours.

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England · Westmorland and Furness

Wednesday 2 September

Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow

Yes. Excellent water quality and no sewage in the last 48 hours.

Water quality only This says nothing about tides, rip currents, cold water shock or lifeguard cover. Cold water and currents are dangerous even when the water is clean. Read the local signs before you go in. What we cannot tell you.

Checked 03:26 UK time

Why this verdict

Annual classification: Excellent (positive factor)
Pollution risk forecast: Normal (positive factor)
Latest E. coli: 18 cfu/100ml (positive factor)
Latest intestinal enterococci: 18 cfu/100ml (positive factor)

Latest bacteria reading

Latest sample · 24 August 2026 · 8 days ago

E. coli: 18cfu/100ml
Intestinal enterococci: 18cfu/100ml

The regulator samples weekly during the bathing season. E. coli and intestinal enterococci are the indicator organisms used in the official classification.

Sewage spills, 2023 to 2025

The Environment Agency links 3 storm overflows to Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow. In 2025 they discharged 209 times.

Counted spills a year at the overflows feeding this bathing water.

241

2023

239

2024

209

2025

Down 13% since 2023, from 241 spills to 209.

Counting every monitored overflow within ten kilometres instead, whether or not it drains here, gives 618 spills across 8 overflows in 2025.

Common questions

Can you swim at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow?: Yes. Excellent water quality and no sewage in the last 48 hours. Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow is a designated bathing water, so it is sampled and rated every season. This answer covers water quality only, not tides, currents or lifeguard cover.
What is the water quality like at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow?: Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow is rated Excellent in the regulator's latest annual classification, a percentile taken over readings from up to four bathing seasons. The most recent sample, taken 24 August 2026, showed 18 cfu/100ml of E. coli and 18 cfu/100ml of intestinal enterococci.
Has there been sewage at Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow recently?: No. No storm overflow within ten kilometres of Windermere, Rayrigg Meadow has discharged in the last 48 hours.

Where this data comes from

Spill counts from the Environment Agency EDM Storm Overflow Annual Returns, 2021 to 2025, published annually.
View the regulator's full profile

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