{"id":413574,"date":"2026-02-07T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:04:18","slug":"about-1000-bathtubs-of-oil-spill-water-removed-from-a14-northamptonshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413574\/","title":{"rendered":"About &#8216;1,000 bathtubs&#8217; of oil spill water removed from A14 Northamptonshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA initially visited the site on Sunday and installed absorbent material to stop the oil from spreading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agency expects most of the work to be completed by Friday, but staff will continue daily monitoring visits to assess any lasting environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Chilvers, who reported the spillage, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been down to the community to get things going, which is a shame as when it was reported [in December] it should have been done. But it&#8217;s great [the clean-up] is happening now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee Barron, the Labour MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, said he would visit the site on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re liaising with local residents, the local angling club, and the parish council&#8230; to make sure we can support the residents and then make sure we have something in place to ensure that this never happens again,&#8221; Barron added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thornely said the agency receives thousands of pollution reports each year, but described this one as &#8220;a very significant incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EA initially visited the site on Sunday and installed absorbent material to stop the oil from spreading.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-413574","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\/413574","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=413574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}