{"id":534278,"date":"2026-04-16T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:59:09","slug":"hundreds-of-fish-die-in-ewell-amid-pollution-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534278\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hundreds&#8217; of fish die in Ewell amid &#8216;pollution issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hundreds&#8221; of fish have been found dead in an area of Surrey, the Environment Agency (EA) says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said its specialist officers were investigating what caused the deaths in West Ewell on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have sent water samples from Ewell Stream for testing, while Thames Water is increasing oxygen levels in the water for the fish that remain,&#8221; the EA explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water said it was aware of &#8220;pollution issues&#8221; in the area and was awaiting the test results to determine the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hundreds&#8221; of fish have been found dead in an area of Surrey, the Environment Agency (EA) says. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534278","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\/534278","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=534278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}