{"id":729875,"date":"2026-06-11T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:08:10","slug":"fish-sauce-plant-cleanup-to-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-in-st-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729875\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Sauce Plant Cleanup to Get Worse Before It Gets Better in St. Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/st-marys-fish-plant-wind-damage-7.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Fish Sauce Plant Cleanup to Get Worse Before It Gets Better in St. Mary\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the old fish sauce plant in St. Mary&#8217;s is open to the elements (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The St. Mary\u2019s Bay fish sauce plant problem is expected to get worse before it gets better.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Steve Ryan says the clean-up project is scheduled to start on June 29 \u2013 to avoid interrupting the high school\u2019s exam season \u2013 and will carry on for about 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>With the upcoming warmer temperatures and the movement of the rotten fish sauce, Mayor Ryan says the community is gearing up for a smelly summer.<\/p>\n<p>The hazardous waste will be buried in Sunnyside\u2019s Central Newfoundland Waste Management Facility, in a welded-closed container, and then covered with topsoil.<\/p>\n<p>The waste facility doesn\u2019t take liquids, so the fish sauce will be mixed with peat moss into a type of \u201csoup\u201d before being boxed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere we\u2019re going to run into the trouble is that it\u2019s going to be mixed here in St. Mary\u2019s with peat moss, so it\u2019s almost like they\u2019ll be making a soup.\u201d Ryan says, \u201cbecause it can\u2019t go as a liquid. Anything that\u2019s put in the site at Sunnyside has to be a solid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Part of the old fish sauce plant in St. Mary&#8217;s is open to the elements (VOCM News)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-729875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}