A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on a river is being investigated by the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n
The thick foam is affecting the waterway along the River Thet in the centre of Thetford, Norfolk. <\/p>\n
Its source has been detected and any further discharge has been stopped, according to an agency spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Firefighters also attended and Norfolk Fire Service warned people not to enter the water or allow their pets to swim in or drink from the river.<\/p>\n
The Environment Agency said it been on the site since 09:00 BST and had taken samples from the river.<\/p>\n
“The foam is continuing to travel down the river and is visible,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
“We have detected the source and prevented further discharge.<\/p>\n
“Our fisheries officers are attending site, and we would appreciate members of the public reporting any fish in distress on 0800 80 70 60.”<\/p>\n
An Anglian Water spokeswoman said checks confirmed the foam had been caused “by a third-party” and was not from any of “our equipment or assets in the area”. <\/p>\n
She added: “One of our managers is on site helping the Environment Agency with their checks which will then go back to the third party responsible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large stretch of white foam which has appeared on a river is being investigated by the Environment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-235373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}