{"id":498181,"date":"2026-03-27T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:30:03","slug":"horsham-angling-lake-polluted-after-suspected-heating-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498181\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsham angling lake polluted after suspected heating oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bailey, who is retired, said he feared fish would die in the lake, which is part of his commercial fishery and provides his only income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the pollution reached a natural spring feeding the pond and was &#8220;not a bucket or a barrel &#8211; it is a lot of oil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bailey said someone nearby would know they were losing oil, or they should do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had seen a dead fish and a duck covered in kerosene, adding deer drank from the stream and there was frog spawn in the silt trap that could be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Until the Environment Agency finds out where it&#8217;s coming from, it will keep leaking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the fishery had a main lake below the silt trap and stock pond, and if oil got into the lake, it could affect fish, geese, moorhens, coots, herons and kingfishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bailey, who is retired, said he feared fish would die in the lake, which is part of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-498181","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\/498181","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=498181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}