{"id":497293,"date":"2026-03-27T00:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497293\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:13:32","slug":"gallons-of-milk-enter-stream-near-tiverton-after-farm-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497293\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallons of milk enter stream near Tiverton after farm spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A clean\u2011up operation is under way after about 1,750 gallons (8,000 litres) of milk spilled into a stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency said milk was accidentally released from a farm into a watercourse that feeds into the River Exe, near Tiverton in Devon, at about 03:00 GMT on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said the farmer and a delivery driver raised the alarm immediately, helping them &#8220;put in place a plan to reduce the risk of environmental harm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agency said milk could strip oxygen from water, which could lead to fish dying in large numbers, but it added it had found environmental damage &#8220;should be limited&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clean\u2011up operation is under way after about 1,750 gallons (8,000 litres) of milk spilled into a stream.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497293","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\/497293","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=497293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}