Pollution spotted in an East Yorkshire chalk steam is thought to have come from road run-off, a water company has said.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire Water told the BBC it had investigated the contamination of Driffield Beck.<\/p>\n
Residents complained on social media they had seen what they thought was oil, with some reporting their sightings to the Environment Agency (EA) on 13 January.<\/p>\n
Yorkshire Water said it was preparing a detailed report for the EA. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the water company said: “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
“However, our investigations suggest that this is not a Yorkshire Water-related incident.”<\/p>\n
An EA spokesperson said there was “no obvious impact on the wildlife”.<\/p>\n
Chalk streams – which come from underground chalk reservoirs – are considered to be rare and special water sources.<\/p>\n
Residents were thanked for reporting the pollution to the EA.<\/p>\n
Anyone with further information about the source of the contamination is asked to contact the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pollution spotted in an East Yorkshire chalk steam is thought to have come from road run-off, a water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382030","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\/382030","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=382030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}