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The Thames Water sewage treatment centre along Lower Way undoubtedly has quite a bad smell to it and being near residential houses, 
Parsons Down Junior School and Newbury Leisure Park, means the smell is affecting the surrounding community.
Obviously Thatcham requires a sewage treatment centre and there is going to be effluent
odours, but surely something can be done?
Text and photographs Copyright 2009 Mike Cass.
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The sewage works has vastly improved over the past two years, thanks to a campaign led by residents including the late Judith Gildersleeves. Thames Water has invested in relocating some of the services, such as tanker disposal, and other work. As part of their current asset management plan they have (or are still currently) upgrading the works to enable phosphate to be stripped from the waste water. This will improve the effluent quality and the subsequent quality of the River Kennet into which it discharges. I have lived near the SW since 1985 so expected some smell, but there really isn't very much of a problem now. It is smellier living next to a dairy farm in the countryside! For those who do not know, the sludge is also dried on site and then disposed of to land as pelleted fertiliser.