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18 The Link Magazine • September 1992
E. Hodge Carpenter & Joiner Bugs get to work on waste
New doors supplied and fitted. The opening of Swindon's rebuilt sewage treatment works in mid-July
should get rid of a major problem for people living close by.
Kitchens, wardrobes, replacement windows. Residents of Rodbourne have
Repair work. Free estimates. No VAT. suffered the dreadful pong for many
years and people living in Westlea
30 years in trade. Tel: (0793) 641057: and Shaw were treated to it when
the wind was blowing from the east.
But the 'historic smell problem,' as
L. C-. ALIt CC-_R PB PLUMBING the public relations officer from
Thames Water delicately put it,
LOCAL HEATING SERVICES should be a thing of the past.
£29 million has been spent over
• Boilers Serviced the last three years redeveloping the
PLUMBING 'Pump works at Barnfield Road to make it
& Fitting Service the biggest in the Thames Water
• Water area and one of the most modern
GAS INSTALLER Sot teners and environmentally friendly in the
Fitted country.
Not many towns have a sewage
C.O.R.G.l.registered • Washing works close to its centre but they
From tap re-seating Machines and were close to the countryside when
to whole house heating" Dishwashers Installed first developed at the end of last Denis Horsman watches billions of
Showers installed at Tel: (0793) century. They have now been invisible bugs cleaning up
reasonable prices surrounded by housing. Over the Swindon's sewage
Tel: 538901 642995 years the works were progressively odd seeing bright green peas and
developed to cope with Swindon's yellow corn standing out against
growth until a major project had to the grey of the grit. This food is
be undertaken to deal with the obviously highly resistant to human
MRT SECRETARIAL increased amount of waste produced digestion processes.
54 million litres of waste water
by Swindon's population. New,
more stringent quality standards for and sewage are treated daily and all
WORD PROCESSING
treated waste water also forced of it is cleaned by microbes or 'bugs'
Letters, CV's, Mailshots, Manuscripts and Reports. action as well. before discharge into the River Ray
All work produced on a Laser Printer. Fax service available. As the old works reached which joins the Thames. Water
For a fast professional secretarial service, capacity, the smell from untreated cleanliness is a big issue at present
phone Maureen on 881733 (West Swindon). sludge on site often confirmed the with European Commission
strain it was under. By enclosing the directives demanding ever more
most smelly parts of the sewage stringent standards.
a scrubbers, most of the smell has been new sewage sludge digesting tanks
process and installing high-tech air
More bugs get to work in three
sia removed. fitted with air scrubbers to eliminate
"I can't say the works will be smell. The methane gas produced
totally smell free but nearly all of the bythesludgewfflallowsookilowatts
offensive odour will be removed," of electricity to be exported to the
A Great Opportunity to buy gifts and said manager Denis Horsman, on a national grid - about half the power
household items at wholesale prices in tour of the site arranged for The Link. needs of the works. Once digested,
"Raw sewage smells a great deal. the sludge is squeezed almost dry
our warehouse shop, situated at We have enclosed the initial and transported to farmland around
Pagoda Park Industrial Estate, Westmead separation and treatment process Swindon.
where paper and coarse material is Bearing in mind its position,

B.k.
Glass, China, Kitchenware, S screened out. The air from this Thames Water have planted 48,000
building is filtered or scrubbed as it trees to screen the works from view.
Artificial Flowers I is sucked out." At present the works is controlled
Open Thursday and Friday
The next stage outside removes by six people. Fully automatic
Sth,
12noon - 2pm the grit washed in off the roads. It's control is proposed for the future.
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