My commute takes me past a water treatment works which emits smells of varying degrees.
This morning was particularly fetid.
In fact, I could smell it without even breathing in - my 15mph forward speed was enough to drive the
poo particles onto my olfactory bulbs and register full effect. It even prompted a couple of barking heaves but no vomit. Quute horrendous really.
Now this got me thinking. As there are houses around the works, how do the residents deal with the smell? Doesit get into their clean washing on the clothes line? Does it render their gardens out of bounds for bbqs etc?
And my final thought. If I had to choose, Would I opt to live near a water treatment works or a nuclear power plant?
I'd go for the latter as they don't smell. I realise that if a reactor goes boing, it's rather serious but I think this negligible risk outweighs the constant fug of the town's turds.
What about you lot?
Nuclear Power Plant - I understand what's going on
Get one of these:
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If it ever reads anything other than zero, get into the shelter.
What time are setting off for home Derek?
I'll try and time "dropping the kids off at the pool" to coincide.
If it's a new plant, then nuclear, no bother. But if it's an old one, built in the gold rush and with its life extended over and over, perhaps less keen.
The obvious solution here is a turd-fuelled power station - burn the blighters before they have a chance to disperse their noxious odours... What's the worst that could happen - fecal rain?
EDIT: answering to the OP's question (and having worked in an executives' restaurant at a Yorkshire crap farm), I'd defo go nuclear.
Used to live in a house that was down wind of a pig farm, you get used to the smell, its when you go away for a weekend or longer and you arrive back and it hits you like a train!
Definitely nuclear, if one of those explodes, you wont know about it. Sewage works expoles? You'll pray it was nuclear....
Sewage treatment works are not supposed to smell that much. Not if they're working well. If they've had a clean out or have only recently been 'primed' as it were then they'll stink until there is sufficient microbial population to treat effectively.
That said, when I lived down south the one near Worcester used to stink all the time, god knows why.