A group of residents in Sheffield have said their local green space is being ruined by dirty discoloured water and waste in a stream.<\/p>\n
Sheffield Lane Dike, which runs through the Tongue Gutter wildlife site in Parson Cross, is managed by Yorkshire Water.<\/p>\n
Mandy Beer, who lives nearby, said the stream had an “awful smell, like toilets flushing and washing machines emptying”, and contained “thousands of baby wipes”.<\/p>\n
A Yorkshire Water spokesperson said its teams had “identified a number of nearby properties where bathrooms, washing machines and sinks are plumbed into the surface water sewer incorrectly” and was contacting affected residents so the issue could be fixed.<\/p>\n
Beer, 62, who said she had grown up in Parson Cross and used to play in the wooded area as a child, said the area used to be “tremendous”. <\/p>\n
“We had everything from deer, even shrimps in the water, it’s a beautiful place to live.”<\/p>\n
But she said she noticed five years ago that dirty water was regularly flowing out from a storm overflow outlet near the entrance of the site.<\/p>\n
“We saw the outlet was spewing out some sort of waste,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Now we see sanitary towels, tampons and thousands upon thousands of baby wipes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of residents in Sheffield have said their local green space is being ruined by dirty discoloured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667768","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\/667768","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=667768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}