{"id":529112,"date":"2026-04-13T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:26:08","slug":"ducks-dying-without-reservoir-ramps-say-penistone-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529112\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks dying without reservoir ramps, say Penistone residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Len Batty, who also lives nearby, said he had been to the reservoir to rescue live ducklings and remove dead ones &#8220;for years at least&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like frogs, he said, ducklings need something solid to climb out of the water on because they cannot swim when young. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Residents] have put in planks for the ducklings but Yorkshire Water say they&#8217;re a health and safety issue too and they&#8217;re removed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire Water said the ramps had been removed for health and safety reasons and could be re-installed once the water level drops at least a metre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to comments on social media, the company said: &#8220;As soon as it is safe we will aim to get these re-installed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Len Batty, who also lives nearby, said he had been to the reservoir to rescue live ducklings and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-529112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529112","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=529112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}