{"id":629263,"date":"2026-06-09T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629263\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:34:09","slug":"sewage-spill-near-primary-school-unacceptable-surrey-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629263\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage spill near primary school unacceptable, Surrey MP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government is to investigate reports of raw sewage floating down a Surrey high street and spreading to a primary school during recent flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monica Harding, Liberal Democrat MP for Esher and Walton, told the House of Commons that the spillage in Thames Ditton was &#8220;unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In last week&#8217;s heavy rain, human waste flooded two homes and spread to the local primary school, and Thames Water&#8217;s proposed solution was to wash it straight back into the river,&#8221; Harding said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water apologised to residents and said &#8220;engineers carried out a thorough investigation of the sewer network and confirmed the flooding was caused by exceptionally heavy rainfall, which overwhelmed the system&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is to investigate reports of raw sewage floating down a Surrey high street and spreading to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629263","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\/629263","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=629263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}