{"id":248242,"date":"2026-01-20T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:22:07","slug":"driffield-beck-pollution-came-from-road-run-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248242\/","title":{"rendered":"Driffield Beck pollution &#8216;came from road run-off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the water company said: &#8220;Following our initial investigation we believe that the contaminant originated from highways surface water run-off entering the watercourse, and are in the process of preparing our detailed report to submit to the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, our investigations suggest that this is not a Yorkshire Water-related incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An EA spokesperson said there was &#8220;no obvious impact on the wildlife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chalk streams &#8211; which come from underground chalk reservoirs &#8211; are considered to be rare and special water sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents were thanked for reporting the pollution to the EA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone with further information about the source of the contamination is asked to contact the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for the water company said: &#8220;Following our initial investigation we believe that the contaminant originated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-248242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}