{"id":226407,"date":"2026-01-10T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226407\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:48:07","slug":"tankers-in-shefford-have-been-pumping-out-sewage-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226407\/","title":{"rendered":"Tankers in Shefford have been pumping out sewage for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown said tankers had been in the area for weeks, and had originally been outside her home, blocking her drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that &#8220;half of Shefford must have smelt it as they are out on the front road and you have to walk past [the tanker] with the sewer open and them pumping it out into the tanker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;You have to cover your nose when you walk past it as it is so pungent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her husband, Tony, a Central Bedfordshire Council Conservative member for Shefford, said he had called Anglian Water about four weeks ago and was told a pipe had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that when he asked how long the situation would last, he was told Anglian Water did not know and &#8220;it was still being worked on&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brown said tankers had been in the area for weeks, and had originally been outside her home, blocking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-226407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}