THE COMMITTEE established to determine the Awards from the Yorkshire Water Community Fund met on Monday 22nd October 2012 in a marathon session at the Saltend Waste Water Treatment Works. Seventy applications had been received by Yorkshire Water requesting grants totaling in excess of £190,000 between them! In light of this massive response, then a … Continue reading »
UPDATE: THE DEADLINE for the first round of the Hull Waste Water Treatment Works Community Fund has been extended following the high number of enquiries about the fund: FIRST ROUND DEADLINE: Friday 31 August EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 Community Grants of between £100 and £5,000 are now available to apply for. A total £50,000 fund will be available … Continue reading »
THREE WEEKS IN to the pea season and there are still no reported foul odours from Yorkshire Water’s Waste Water Treatment Works – so have we won the Battle of the Pong? Councillor John Dennis in a letter to the Hedon Blog expresses his hopes that Yorkshire Water have been successful in sorting out the … Continue reading »
THE LATEST update from Yorkshire Water shows that NO COMPLAINTS have been received about foul odours from the Waste Water Treatment Works at Saltend. In the week Monday 9th of July – Sunday 15th July 2012, no odour reports had been logged – in the same period last year then over 20 complaints had been … Continue reading »
THE PEA HARVEST season has started. The process of washing, blanching and freezing thousands of tonnes of peas at the processing plant in Hull has begun. Over the summer vast quantities of pea-residue is discharged into the sewerage system and eventually arrives down at Yorkshire Water’s waste water treatment works at Saltend. Over the 12 … Continue reading »
THIS YEAR marks the 65th Anniversary of Birds Eye’s first pea harvest, and the company is celebrating by giving away free pea seeds. We republish this article in the hope that local residents will also be celebrating the ‘moment when the pod went pop’ – by breathing sweet, clean, odourless air. First published in May … Continue reading »
YORKSHIRE WATER have today announced that a £50,000 Community Fund will be put in place to compensate for the problem odours that have impacted on residents during the last few years from the Waste Water Treatment Works at Saltend. Richard Sears, Community Engagement Manager for Yorkshire Water, said: “We know that for some years the … Continue reading »
YORKSHIRE WATER confirmed today that the new £3.5m odour control unit at their Saltend Treatment Works is now “up and running”. Richard Sears, community engagement manager at Yorkshire Water,said: “After months of hard work, we’re pleased to say we’re now in a position where we have this huge state-of-the-art unit up and running, just as … Continue reading »
