Dear Editor,
Persons who live on Wellington Drive, in the vicinity of Wellington Glades in Kingston 6, continue for years to be bombarded by an offensive smell emanating from the gully that runs close to all the housing developments in this area. The 'rotten egg' smell, I suspect, is hydrogen sulphide, among other things like methane, ammonia, which in high concentrations can cause death; in lower concentrations causes irritation of the respiratory tract and eyes, nausea, nervousness, drowsiness, and headache.
A National Environment and Protection Agency (NEPA) team, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, during routine investigation of such maladies realised that it was gas emanating from untreated sewage disposed from a plant located in the Karachi housing development. The plant deposits in the gully through a pipe strapped onto the side.
I was impressed by the persistent and meticulous NEPA enforcement team who got access to the gully for samples and photographs over a six-foot fence using ladders string and bottles along with some assistance from citizens of Wellington Glades.
Hopefully the efforts of NEPA and other relevant agencies and persons will put an end to this age-old environmental horror.
Michael Spence
Kingston 6
micspen2@hotmail.com
We've found 'the rat'!
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Persons who live on Wellington Drive, in the vicinity of Wellington Glades in Kingston 6, continue for years to be bombarded by an offensive smell emanating from the gully that runs close to all the housing developments in this area. The 'rotten egg' smell, I suspect, is hydrogen sulphide, among other things like methane, ammonia, which in high concentrations can cause death; in lower concentrations causes irritation of the respiratory tract and eyes, nausea, nervousness, drowsiness, and headache.
A National Environment and Protection Agency (NEPA) team, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, during routine investigation of such maladies realised that it was gas emanating from untreated sewage disposed from a plant located in the Karachi housing development. The plant deposits in the gully through a pipe strapped onto the side.
I was impressed by the persistent and meticulous NEPA enforcement team who got access to the gully for samples and photographs over a six-foot fence using ladders string and bottles along with some assistance from citizens of Wellington Glades.
Hopefully the efforts of NEPA and other relevant agencies and persons will put an end to this age-old environmental horror.
Michael Spence
Kingston 6
micspen2@hotmail.com
We've found 'the rat'!
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