{"id":472252,"date":"2026-03-12T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:15:10","slug":"mining-firm-imerys-pays-430k-over-cornwall-river-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472252\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining firm Imerys pays \u00a3430k over Cornwall river pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency said in one incident an underground pipeline at the company&#8217;s clay production plant near Goonamarris failed on 15 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clay was released on the surrounding land and also entered the Gwindra Stream, which flows into the River Fal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said Imerys estimated that an equivalent weight of clay lost was 87.8 dry tonnes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials added that an investigation found that the pipe fracture was likely caused by damage from machinery and subsequent sampling suggested impacts were still present two months after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said a second clay discharge took place at the stream in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other incidents included the failure of a buried pipeline joint causing a clay discharge into a stream, and a leaking joint at its Maclarens tank site caused clay to flow into the River Fal, the agency added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency said in one incident an underground pipeline at the company&#8217;s clay production plant near Goonamarris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-472252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472252","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=472252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}