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Yorkshire Water Smells – No complaints recorded

Posted on October 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

IN THE LATEST update from Yorkshire Water’s Hull and Saltend News webpage then NO COMPLAINTS about odours have been recorded in the week 17th October to 23rd October 2011. This means that for the whole of October only 1 complaint has been reported.

This is similar to the situation in October 2010 with 1 odour complaint, but far better than previous years with 25 complaints in the same month in 2009, and 20 each in October 2008 and October 2007.

The Hedon Blog has reproduced the latest odour report from Yorkshire Water below.

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Yorkshire Water Smells – Good news…. but we’ve not forgotten!

Posted on October 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

REMEMBER THIS from August this year….?

THE GOOD NEWS is that smells from the Yorkshire Water Waste Water Treatment Works do not seem to have caused any major upset in the last few weeks.

In the three weeks from 19th September – 9th October 2011 then there have been only two recorded complaints according to Yorkshire Water’s Hull and Saltend News. Of course this may not reflect reality because people do not always report the smells they suffer.

However, we do not want to forget the 11 years of odour problems from the Saltend site or the ruined summer of 2011. And we want to ensure that Yorkshire Water don’t forget either!

It should be a cause for celebration when the new odour control unit goes online at the Treatment Works in November/December – but it’s also a perfect time to remind Yorkshire Water of their past misdemeanours! So that is when it is proposed to present Yorkshire Water with our Wall of Shame!

The Hedon Blog will ensure that those in authority at Yorkshire Water are sent copies of the comments contained on the Wall of Shame. Copies will be also sent to the media and other bodies such as OFWAT the regulator of the water and sewerage industry in England.

People are still sending us comments to add to the Wall of Shame – but if you have not yet sent us a comment of your experience of the smells in the past, then please do!

Visit: Yorkshire Water Smells – Wall of Shame

Catch up with all the campaign history and news at Yorkshire Water Smells.

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Saltend Smells Petition – Presentation recorded by Council

Posted on October 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment
Petition - Saltend - ready to be presented

Petition - Saltend - ready to be presented

THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING at which the petition on Yorkshire Water’s Smells was presented, have now been published. Minute 25 relating to the petition are reproduced below:

25 PETITION 04/11 – SMELLS FROM YORKSHIRE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, SALTEND

The Sub-Committee received a petition presented by Mr Ray Duffill, resident of Hedon, stating that the persistent odours from the Yorkshire Water Waste Water Treatment Works at Saltend was a nuisance, prejudicial to health and interfered with the personal comfort of the community. Residents considered that the odours from the Yorkshire Water Waste Water Treatment Works at Saltend was a statutory nuisance and should be dealt with as such by the both East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council.

Two petitions had been set up by the residents, one online and one via paper copies. 1,371 people had signed the paper copy petition and 1,034 people had signed e-petition, a total of 2,405 signatures.
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‘Smells’ Petition formally presented to East Riding Council

Posted on September 21, 2011 by | 1 Comment

Photo by Jim Uney: (Left to right: Committee Chairman Councillor John Wilkinson, Cllr Ann Suggit, Jo Gardner, Ray Duffill, Cllr John Dennis, Janice Edmonds).

THE PETITION to declare Yorkshire Water a ‘statutory nuisance’ for its Saltend smells was formally tabled at an East Riding Council meeting this morning.

In presenting the petition to the Environment and Regeneration, Overview and Scrutiny Sub-committee, Ray Duffill explained that it was not just a case of one bad summer of odours, but this had been a persistent problem over 11 years. Previous claims that there had been a ‘lack of evidence’ of odours from the site had now been scotched. The 2,405 names on the petition revealed that there was indeed a problem and the Council ought to make preparations now for swift action in the event of more odour incidents after Yorkshire Water’s new Odour Control Unit becomes operational in December. Continue reading →

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Anti-Smells Petition to be considered by East Riding Council Committee

Posted on September 16, 2011 by | 1 Comment

THE AGENDA for Wednesday’s (21st September 2011) Overview and Scrutiny, Environment and Regeneration Sub-Committee has been published.

The full agenda can be downloaded from the Sub-Committee’s webpage on the Council website.

The meeting is open to the public before 10am. Local residents concerned about the smells are asked to join the lobby of councillors from 9:30am at County, Hall, Beverley.

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Campaign: Lobby East Riding Council over Yorkshire Water Smells

Posted on September 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

WEDNESDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2011 is the next date for the diaries of those campaigning against the Saltend pongs!

At 10am the East Riding Council’s Environment and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee meets and will be formally presented with the Petition (signed by 2,405 people) calling for Yorkshire Water to be dealt with as a ‘statutory nuisance’ for  its persistent odour problems that affect local communities.

Letter to OSC - sampleThe 12 councillors that form the Sub-Committee  - which includes our own ward Councillor John Dennis – have all been sent a letter that states:

“Yorkshire Water have invested £3.5m into a new Odour Control Unit which will become operational by December this year, but local residents are completely cynical that the new unit will eliminate the odour problems. Local people have lost trust in Yorkshire Water following, what is seen as, their broken promises to tackle odours made in the past.
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Yorkshire Water – Notice of Pea Harvest 2012

Posted on September 10, 2011 by | Leave a comment

“Summer 2012 – I’ll be back!”

Pea Pod Costume

AFTER A BUMPER CROP of peas from the harvest this year, the Yorkshire Post reports that:

“Farmers have been ploughing peas back into the ground after an astonishing set of harvests. An unprecedented pea crop was the most spectacular result of an unexpectedly good combination of circumstances for many growers this year… Birds Eye is offering contracts for hundreds of extra hectares next year, to meet a new order from Italy.”

So this article serves to give NOTICE to Yorkshire Water that the potential for SMELLS from its Waste Water Treatment Works will be even greater next year…

… so BE PREPARED Yorkshire Water! Make sure that your £3.5m Odour Control Unit is SWITCHED ON next summer, and get those chemical dowsers ready… it could be a really smelly summer 2012!

Grumpy Hedon Blogger

Editor’s Note: Yorkshire Water blamed concentrated effluent produced from the seasonal pea harvest for the most appalling smells from its Saltend site during the summer 2011. See Pea pong – odour misery! on HU12.

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Yorkshire Water Smells – Petition Success!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by | 3 Comments

THE PETITION encouraging East Riding Council to declare Yorkshire Water a ‘Statutory Nuisance’ for its persistent odour problems from Saltend, has been soundly supported.

The Petition, which was launched on July 31st 2011, has been signed by 2,405 people. Over 1,000 of these signed online.

The Petition has been delivered to East Riding Council today and will be presented to the Council’s Environment and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee at its meeting on Wednesday 21st September, 10am at County Hall, Beverley.

A lobby of Councillors will be held from 9:30am that morning to convince them that local people are angry and demand to be protected from future odour incidents.

Odour Control Unit £3.5m

Following the opening of Yorkshire Water’s new Odour Control Unit in
December, then local people need to know that the Council will act swiftly on their behalf if any new odour problems take place and use Statutory Nuisance powers to tackle the water company .

Yorkshire Water’s defence that they are spending £3.5m on managing odours from the Waste Water Treatment Works, will only ‘hold water’ if odours are prevented in 2012 and in future years.

Thanks to all those that have supported the Yorkshire Water Smells campaign.

You can still leave comments on the Wall of Shame.

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