{"id":281554,"date":"2026-02-13T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:38:13","slug":"mont-cuet-landfill-site-forced-to-close-after-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281554\/","title":{"rendered":"Mont Cuet landfill site forced to close after flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Commercial waste contractors and gardening companies have been urged to avoid a landfill site after its closure due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">States of Guernsey said it followed heavy rain in the past 48 hours, with the ground left saturated at the Mont Cuet site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government added the closure would mainly affect commercial waste contractors and gardening companies because the majority of the island&#8217;s waste was exported for recycling, energy recovery or disposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">States Works had pumps in operation to deal with the flooding at the landfill site, however, it was expected to take &#8220;some time&#8221; before the facility could reopen, the States said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commercial waste contractors and gardening companies have been urged to avoid a landfill site after its closure due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-281554","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\/281554","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=281554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}