{"id":404043,"date":"2026-02-02T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:47:25","slug":"villagers-want-solution-after-stithians-flooded-with-raw-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404043\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers want solution after Stithians flooded with raw sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lou Frame, who works at Stithians School, said the village had flooded &#8220;for years and years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sewage system is antiquated and needs replacing, but South West Water puts a sticky plaster on it every time something happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said pupils had spent a week laying wood chip and smartening up the Wild Tribe play area in the school fields, which had been &#8220;completely wrecked&#8221; by the sewage flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Children are standing in raw sewage every morning waiting for the bus, it&#8217;s disgusting,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parish councillor Blease also said that previously, &#8220;South West Water has come up with sticking plaster solutions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Flood water is mixing with raw sewage and making it very unpleasant,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lou Frame, who works at Stithians School, said the village had flooded &#8220;for years and years&#8221;. &#8220;The sewage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-404043","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\/404043","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=404043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}