{"id":803177,"date":"2026-10-15T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803177\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:50:09","slug":"chemical-spill-suspected-after-dead-fish-spotted-in-sopley-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803177\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical spill suspected after dead fish spotted in Sopley Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Water quality campaigners have said they suspect a chemical spill after dead fish were reported in a stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents in Bransgore, Hampshire, reported blue-grey coloured water in Sopley Brook on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Forest Water Watch, a volunteer group that carries out water testing, said it believed the pollution was chemical-related, rather than sewage or oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency confirmed it was investigating and said officers had taken samples for testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Water Watch co-ordinator Gill Hickman said, by the time she arrived at the stream on Tuesday morning, most of the blue colour in the river had gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water quality campaigners have said they suspect a chemical spill after dead fish were reported in a stream.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803177","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\/803177","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=803177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}