Dawlish Discussion

Article on BBC Spotlight yesterday about the horrible smell that has emanated from the water treatment works near Dawlish Warren this year. I can personally vouch for the pong as, depending on which way the wind is blowing, I have been able to smell it in my back garden. This smell is nothing new. It has been ponging like this, off and on, for years now.

Click on evening news. Item starts 14 minutes and 54 secs into programme and lasts for about two minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfr1/episodes/player

Hi Lynne, I would love the smell to be outside instead of in our bathroom, with no window to open. This town is full of you know what. It was the same in the old flat, but the sewer smell was then in the living room.

Hi BB.

I thought that in the case of windowless bathrooms that extractor fans are obligatory. Might be worth checking out?

With regard to the pong emanating from the water treatment works along Warren Road - when the options for land put forward for house building were made public last summer one of the sites was Warren Farm (where the car boot and other activities are held). The blurb accompanying why houses should be built there stated that they would generate a high price given the lovely views. Funnily enough, although the close proximity of the water treatment works was acknowledged no mention was made of the pong that we all know comes from it from time to time. Imagine if you will, all those super douper exective type houses coming with that little extra 'something'.   A Unique Selling Point indeed.