{"id":473460,"date":"2026-03-13T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473460\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:18:17","slug":"silsden-village-beck-turns-brown-as-locals-fear-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473460\/","title":{"rendered":"Silsden village beck turns brown as locals fear pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe has an allotment on Bolton Road next to the development, and said pollution had been entering the local beck on and off for about nine months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the rain we&#8217;ve had, I think it&#8217;s been a problem for them, and at the moment they&#8217;re still just doing excavations, they&#8217;re not actually building any houses, so there&#8217;s big piles of soil,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are monitoring the situation in partnership with the Aire Rivers Trust and encourage people to report it to the Environment Agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Environment Agency spokesperson said: &#8220;We encourage anyone who witnesses a pollution incident to report it to our 24-hour incident hotline as early as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tribe has an allotment on Bolton Road next to the development, and said pollution had been entering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-473460","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\/473460","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=473460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}