{"id":233669,"date":"2025-07-03T03:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233669\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T03:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:30:16","slug":"fish-killed-after-chemical-incident-at-devon-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233669\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish killed after chemical incident at Devon river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dozens of fish are thought to have been killed by pollution in a Devon river, officials have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency said it was investigating after it received reports of a chemical entering the River Lew, near Okehampton, late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the agency said about 90 fish had so far died and samples had been taken from the river for analysis to help identify the source of the pollutant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South West Water said it was aware of the reports and it was supporting the agency with its investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of fish are thought to have been killed by pollution in a Devon river, officials have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787190615838489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}