{"id":249549,"date":"2025-11-07T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:41:10","slug":"farmer-to-pay-almost-40000-after-admitting-slurry-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249549\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer to pay almost \u00a340,000 after admitting slurry pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A farmer has been ordered to pay nearly \u00a340,000 for polluting a quarry lagoon with dairy slurry, a court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philip McDowell, 38, of Willoughbridge Lodge Farm, near Market Drayton, admitted allowing it to flow into Lordsley Wood Quarry without an environmental permit at a hearing in July and was sentenced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency, which brought the prosecution, said it had received a report of the tenant farmer pumping slurry into the quarry in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It sent officers to the site, who found the lagoon contained &#8220;thick and dirty floating foam which smelled of cattle slurry&#8221; and that it had spread across &#8220;a significant area&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer has been ordered to pay nearly \u00a340,000 for polluting a quarry lagoon with dairy slurry, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-249549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}