| Topic: | Re:Mogden Update | |
| Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 12/11/10 13:47:00 |
| John The info provided on Hounslow's webpage is something instigated at the behest of residents by Cllr Jon Hardy when he took over as Lead Member. The reasoning behind it was so that Cllrs and the community could have a clear idea of what is going on at the site and to ensure that Cllr Barbara Reid's tough words and promise to SDC that LBH 'will come down hard on Thames Water' for any breaches would ensure some action. Unfortunately as Jon Hardy is no longer a Councillor it seems that nobody is taking the reigns and maintaining the impetus of Jon's hard work on this. Now that you have drawn our attention to the visits by LBH we can see what a farce the procedure has become. If you consider just the September visits which took place at the same time the independent surveyor was on site and discovered the odorous uncovered skips (and provided photographs at the public meeting), we wonder why the same negligence was not noted by Hounslow Council during their weekly visits. We note also numerous exceedences of the maximum permitted H2S levels of 0.015 ppm where no reason is provided for the unlawful exceedence and to make matters worse, the column provided for Thames Water to account for the unacceptable odour levels has not even been completed. In some cases the levels have been exceeded by 300%. It appears to me that Thames Water is still being permitted to run rough-shod over LBH, the tough words of Cllr Reid count for nothing and the expansion is indeed proving to be wholly unsustainable. "On the 24 September, the southside monitor recorded activity exceeding the trigger level from around 15.53-17.33, peaking at 0.04ppm at around 17.13. On the 26 September, the eastside monitor slightly exceeded the trigger level for around ten minutes from 13.50-1400, peaking at around 0.019ppm. On the 29 September the eastside odour monitor exceeded the trigger level for approximately 20 minutes, from around 20.46-21.06, peaking at 0.028ppm at around 21.06. This activity was recorded in the odour log. Later the same day, a record in the odour log showed that odour monitor 7 spiked at 22.17 and this is attributed to digester gas levels. On the 02 October, the eastside monitor recorded activity exceeding the trigger level from around 22.28-22.58, peaking at 0.05ppm at around 22.38. On the 05 October, the southside monitor slightly exceeded the trigger level. On the 06 October the eastside odour monitor measured an exceedence of the trigger level for approximately 20 minutes, from around 6.24-6.44, peaking at around 0.034ppm." Nothing more than a useless tick box regime is it? |