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Notice: Maintenance to take place on Yorkshire Water Odour Control Unit

Posted on August 8, 2011 by | Leave a comment

YORKSHIRE WATER have given notice on their website at Hull and Saltend News that they are to carry out maintenance this evening Monday 8th August 2011 on their existing Odour Control unit at the Saltend site:

“As part of our proactive approach to maintaining the efficiency of our existing odour control unit, we are due to replace the carbon filter starting late evening of Monday 8 August 2011. The work will be completed overnight to minimise the effect on the local community, and the unit is scheduled to be back up and running in the morning of 9 August 2011. Should you wish to discuss this further, please contact us on 0845 1 24 24 24.”

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Yorkshire Water Smells Campaign hits the news!

Posted on August 2, 2011 by | 5 Comments

RESIDENTS CAMPAIGNING against the Yorkshire Water Saltend Smells were in the news today! And it all started from a simple text message from Jo Gardner to BBC Radio Humberside complaining about the odours. That text message lead to interviews with radio, TV and press.

Cllr Ann Suggit, BBC's Olivia Cubberley, Jo and Zak Gardner

BBC Radio Humberside interviewed Jo from Paull and Ray Duffill from Hedon in the Market Place this morning about the problem of the smells and the campaign to get them eliminated. They were joined by Hedon Mayor and East Riding Councillor Ann Suggit who spoke about the 11-year campaign to get Yorkshire Water to comply with its previous no smells pledges.

The campaigners then whizzed off to Paull where a group of Main Street residents explained to BBC Look North about the effects of the smells on their quality of life.

The Hull Daily Mail was next to cover the story with photos taken in front of the treatment works.

Sign the petition in Game People - George Street Hedon

SIGN THE PETITION AT YORKSHIRE WATER SMELLS – PETITION

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Smells: MP will express local residents’ disgust at Yorkshire Water’s continued failure

Posted on August 2, 2011 by | 5 Comments

GRAHAM STUART Member of Parliament for Beverley & Holderness, has called an urgent meeting this week between Yorkshire Water, local Councillors and Council officials, to demand more effective short-term action to tackle the stench coming from the Yorkshire Water Treatment Plant at Saltend.

Graham said: “What local residents have had to put up with has been horrible. We all know that a second odour control unit is being put into the plant and hope it can provide the proper long-term solution we have all been working for. Nonetheless, the smell now is outrageous and management needs to get a grip on it.

At the meeting the Councillors and I will express local residents’ disgust at Yorkshire Water’s continued failure to protect them. I will be pressing the Council to use its powers to ensure that Yorkshire Water cleans up its act.”

Link: Graham Stuart MP

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Petition: Smells from Waste Water Treatment Works are a public nuisance!

Posted on July 31, 2011 by | 3 Comments

HEDON IS A PLACE OF AMBITIONS! We want to celebrate and build upon our history and heritage and create an even better place for people to live, work and visit!

We have an active community of groups and individuals that are striving to improve the quality and enjoyment of life for all its residents. Hedon residents have great ideas about transforming the town; its shopping and leisure experience – whilst preserving its character and opposing inappropriate development. Hedon even harbours a great ambition to bring water back to the Haven!

Hedon has the talent, the ideas and the imagination to take us into a positive future… We have lots to look forward to…

… and then there’s the smell!

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Lobby Town Council about foul odours!

Posted on July 28, 2011 by | 8 Comments

Odours from Waste Water Treatment Works

HEDON TOWN COUNCIL opens its doors tonight at the Town Hall for 30 minutes, to let the public ‘have its say’ on local issues.

The Hedon Blog is encouraging people to attend and raise the issue of the SMELLS from the Yorkshire Water Waste Treatment Works at Saltend.

Whilst the Town Councillors are doing their very best to represent residents’ interests regarding the foul odours – it will only strengthen their case if local people are actively engaged in trying to find a solution to the problem.

Coat of arms above Town Hall entrance (venue)

On these pages, and on our Facebook Page, it is clear that local people want to step up the campaign against the foul odours that disrupt our quality of life.

Julie Shepherd asks: “Why can’t the stink plant be fined for their leakages?”

Neil Shillito and Dean Robson both agree that more “direct action” should be taken with a protest being held outside the Yorkshire Water plant.

Ed, the Editor of the Holderness Heartbeat, sums up the frustration of many local people in his comments in the latest issue: “I believe we should close Yorkshire Water at Saltend as they’ve degenerated our quality of life & should be charged with ‘Crimes against Holderness’. I’m sick of their disgusting odours – No excuses, CLOSE!”

The meeting is at the Town Hall (between the Alexandra Hall and Allison Hall) TONIGHT from 7pm – 7:30pm. Anybody wanting to attend to protest this issue please meet outside at 6:55pm. 

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Yorkshire Water Smells – What residents are saying

Posted on July 22, 2011 by | 9 Comments

THE SMELLS from the Yorkshire Water Waste Water Treatment Works have been particularly bad again over the last three weeks.

Since 27th June there have been 114 complaints recorded at Yorkshire Water. Fix My Street has captured the mood of  some disgusted residents:

“What a stink, the directors of the site should live near it to see what it’s like. Keep your windows closed folks, it’s a smelly one today!”

“Plant stinking again.”

“This really is getting ridiculous, are we living in Victorian England. This obnoxious smell was supposedly being dealt with yet, the smell just seems to be getting worse.”

“The stench coming from the waste treatment plant on thursday 30 june at 7pm was disgusting and foul.”

“Unbearable smells”

“I don’t know what going on at yorkshire water,but the stench from the treatment works for the last ten days has been disgusting. Nobody should have to live with smells like these every day. this is supposed to be the 21st century, not the sixteen hundreds when they tipped sewage into the streets.”

“Would you want to sit outside and have a meal with smells like these everyday. You try and run a business with this stench on your doorstep.”

Yorkshire Water has highlighted that it is the pea harvesting season with subsequent increased levels of slurry being discharged by processing factories into the city’s sewage network. This has also coincided with a mechanical issue with their chemical dosing equipment which has reduced the efficiency of the odour control unit.

The Yorkshire Water Hull and Saltend News web page does explain that the system is now working again and performing well. They say:

“We are very sorry for any inconvenience this incident may have caused. Should you wish to discuss this further, please contact us on 08451 24 24 24.”

Keep reporting the smells – so Yorkshire Water can act quickly to tackle any incident.

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Waste Water Treatment Works – Smells!

Posted on July 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

SMELLS FROM THE Waste Water Treatment Works have been particularly unpleasant over the last two days. Make sure that you continue to let Yorkshire Water, Saltend know of your concerns and complaints about odours or continue to report them on FixMyStreet.com.

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Yorkshire Water – Tour of Waste Water Treatment Works

Posted on May 9, 2011 by | 2 Comments

Odours from Waste Water Treatment Works

THE “SALTEND SMELL”  - a term which probably unfairly attributes the odours emanating from the Yorkshire Water Waste Water Treatment Works on Hedon Road to the hamlet of Salt End in Preston Parish – is under the spotlight once again.

24 odour complaints have been received and recorded by Yorkshire Water or the East Riding Council between 28th March and the 1st May 2011. Additionally the odours became an issue in the local elections, with most of the candidates referring to the odours in their leaflets and statements.

However, Yorkshire Water is keen to demonstrate to local residents its efforts to reduce odours from the Treatment Works. They have organised a series of seven presentations about the site over the weekend of Saturday 21st May – Sunday 22nd May, each followed by a tour of the Treatment Works. The events are aimed to disclose to residents the work that goes on at the site. In particular they want residents to find out more about the £3.2m construction of a new odour-control unit.

Local residents should have received a letter explaining how to book a place on one of the presentations and tours (note the tour is not suitable for those in wheelchairs or for those under 16 years of age).

Further information is available at www.yorkshirewater.com/book

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