{"id":602719,"date":"2026-05-25T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:58:07","slug":"people-power-works-say-cark-campaigners-against-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602719\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;People power works&#8217; say Cark campaigners against sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barton said the water treatment works, which was installed at the end of 2024, had led to improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What&#8217;s brought the figures down is the bad publicity that we kept giving them and they actually had to do something,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s better but we&#8217;ve always got to be on our toes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People power works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United Utilities said the mini wastewater treatment works had cut spills at the site and could treat double the amount of water each second compared to previously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The solution in place means we&#8217;re now able to biologically treat wastewater to the highest of standards in Cark before returning it safely to the environment,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barton said the water treatment works, which was installed at the end of 2024, had led to improvements.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602719","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\/602719","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=602719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}