[hisimp-chat] Nasty odours- your help please

[Keith Palmer]

I mentioned the smell to Denis Payne at the Feast market and suggested
it was a topic ripe for discussion (pun intended).

 

Folks around Manor Park thought it was Chivers, and was due to a new
Digestor (or similar) plant that had been installed just prior to the
smells starting.

 

And yes, it is worse than Milton.

 

I am impressed by the Home Close tanker relay - no smells, just hope
they do better than the Olympic relay team and don't drop the baton. 

 

Keith Palmer

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Sent: 13 October 2008 13:25
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Subject: [hisimp-chat] Nasty odours- your help please

 

                                          13th October 2008

 

Hello Everyone,

 

Many of you will have experienced the very unpleasant odours which have
affected parts of Histon & Impington over the last few months, certainly
since June 2008, possibly before then.  This smell can only be described
as sewage, and is extremely obnoxious and nauseating at times.

 

The main areas that have been affected by this smell are:-

 

New School Rd, Home Close, Merton Rd, Shirley Rd, Somerset Rd and Manor
Park (all in Histon).   Other roads may also have been affected, but
these are the only ones I am aware of.

 

This would indicate that the smell is possibly originating from Premier
Foods, (the old Chivers site). 

 

Myself and others have been in communication with SCDC environmental
dept about this, since early July.   SCDC did respond with a very
lengthy, technical explanation on 9th July, but here we are some three
months on, and the smell is persisting.

District Councillor Mike Mason has also been "on the case" on behalf of
us all, working very hard and is continuing to do so, but we do not seem
to be getting anywhere so far.

 

SCDC Environmental health dept. do require help from us Histon/Impington
residents, which is to monitor the smell, taking note of dates, times
etc, when the smell is at its worst, weather conditions & wind
direction.  I have some copies of the forms provided by South Cambs.
Environment dept.

 

  Brian Heffernan or Nick Atkins at South Cambs. District Council,
Environmental Health, Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6EA   are the gentlemen
who have been dealing with the situation.

 

Recently I've been made aware that someone who lives in New School Rd is
trying to get this information from the residents of that road, by
dropping notes through letter boxes, but I don't know who that person
is.( is it you ? if so please get in touch.)  We all need to get
together, as there is "strength in numbers", as the saying goes.   The
more of us who complain to SCDC, and provide the information they
require, the more chance of getting the problem solved.     We don't
want legal action taken, we just want the nasty smells to stop  please,
and do not want to spend another Summer like this last one, having to go
inside and shut all doors and windows when we should be outside enjoying
our gardens etc!    

 

Currently our villages do have a broken sewage pipe which is being dealt
with by the water company, which is why the tankers are working
continuously, keeping sewage levels down, however, I am informed that
this is not connected to the unpleasant odours we have/are suffering
during the last few months.   I await any comments please, we need your
help !!  Thanks. 

 

regards,

 

 

Barbara  (Kempton)

Merton Road.

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