{"id":827606,"date":"2026-07-26T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:00:12","slug":"crews-preparing-to-transport-st-marys-rotting-fish-sauce-to-burial-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827606\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews Preparing to Transport St. Mary\u2019s Rotting Fish Sauce to Burial Site"},"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\/07\/st-marys-fish-plant-wind-damage-6.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Crews Preparing to Transport St. Mary's Rotting Fish Sauce to Burial Site\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vats of toxic, fermenting fish sauce in the old fish sauce plant in St. Mary&#8217;s (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Town of St. Mary\u2019s hopes to give an update on one of the more unique environmental cleanups you will see. <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of vats of rotting fish sauce are going to be taken away and buried at the disposal site in Sunnyside. <\/p>\n<p>Crews have begun cutting into the tanks in order to get at the hazardous waste, which will then be mixed with peat moss and transported. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Steve Ryan says there are over a hundred 3000-gallon tanks on site. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re ten or twelve feet high and about six feet across so they\u2019ll be moved out from  one part of the building to the other,\u201d says Mayor Ryan. <\/p>\n<p>He hopes to invite media to the town this week for an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Vats of toxic, fermenting fish sauce in the old fish sauce plant in St. Mary&#8217;s (VOCM News)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,41,39,42,40,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-827606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827606","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=827606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}