Nottinghamshire neighbours have shared what it's like to live close to a sewage treatment centre. At the end of Quibell's Lane in Newark you will find Crankley Point, which is one of the county's Severn Trent treatment centres.
A new pumping station and screening chamber was added to the site in as part of a £60m water and waste investment in the town. Whilst residents in the area cannot see the centre due to it being at the bottom of the lane and behind a barrier of trees, they explained they can still smell it.
Retail store manager, Joanna Proctor, 51, said: "Sometimes there's a bit of a smell in the summer. It depends on how hot it is and the weather.
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We can't see it from here but we do smell it in the summer when it's warm." When asked how regularly they can smell it, she replied: "It can be quite often in the summer."
Labourer Martin Campbell, 63, of Newark said: "The smell in the summer is bad, especially if the wind is blowing this way. It has got worse since they have done that drainage. It is quite regular, even if it's not too hot you can smell it.
"As you get nearer to it, you can smell it. It just hits you." A 44 year old education worker who lives on Wolsey Road but did not wish to be named said: "We often get like a sugary smell but that's from the sugar beet. "We do get some bad smells, but it doesn't bother me. We can't see it from here but when it's windy and the weather's warm we can smell it."
Retired, Joy Carlisle, in her 80s, said: "I've been here all my life and it's always been there. It's not the same as it was. It's worse when the weather is hot, sometimes it can get really bad." When asked if the smell has got worse in recent years, she replied: "I don't know.
"It fluctuates really as it was really bad when I was a kid. It has got better since then obviously as it's been modernised, but it is still pretty bad."
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