Mystery Stench Hits Cardiff Bay
ic Wales, United Kingdom
South Wales Echo
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Cardiff Bay (UK):
A mystery stench in Cardiff Bay has become so bad that people have been retching in the street.
Businesses in the area say the stink, which smells like sewerage, has been around for weeks but yesterday it was so bad people felt physically sick.
Caroline Maiorano, the landlady of The Packet pub, said: “It is really affecting my business. It stinks.
“I have complained four or five times but nothing has ever been done about it. The smell comes and goes but it is here more often than not.”
Cardiff businessman David Jones, 47, of Church Road, Whitchurch, who was visiting the Bay, said: “I’ve never smelt anything like it. People were literally holding their noses - it was a vile smell of raw sewage and so bad that it stayed in my car for miles after I drove away from Mermaid Quay.”
And Yvonne Scott, deputy headteacher at Mount Stuart Primary in Cardiff Bay said: “It seems to be coming up from the drains.”
Welsh Water has promised to investigate, and a spokeswoman said: “We have not received any complaints from customers experiencing odours in the Mermaid Quay area of Cardiff Bay but have now have dispatched a team to the area to investigate these reports”
An environmental health spokeswoman for Cardiff Council said their pollution control section had not had any reports of a problem and it was Welsh Water’s responsibility if the smell was linked to the drains.
Oct 12 2005
ic Wales, United Kingdom
South Wales Echo
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Cardiff Bay (UK):
A mystery stench in Cardiff Bay has become so bad that people have been retching in the street.
Businesses in the area say the stink, which smells like sewerage, has been around for weeks but yesterday it was so bad people felt physically sick.
Caroline Maiorano, the landlady of The Packet pub, said: “It is really affecting my business. It stinks.
“I have complained four or five times but nothing has ever been done about it. The smell comes and goes but it is here more often than not.”
Cardiff businessman David Jones, 47, of Church Road, Whitchurch, who was visiting the Bay, said: “I’ve never smelt anything like it. People were literally holding their noses - it was a vile smell of raw sewage and so bad that it stayed in my car for miles after I drove away from Mermaid Quay.”
And Yvonne Scott, deputy headteacher at Mount Stuart Primary in Cardiff Bay said: “It seems to be coming up from the drains.”
Welsh Water has promised to investigate, and a spokeswoman said: “We have not received any complaints from customers experiencing odours in the Mermaid Quay area of Cardiff Bay but have now have dispatched a team to the area to investigate these reports”
An environmental health spokeswoman for Cardiff Council said their pollution control section had not had any reports of a problem and it was Welsh Water’s responsibility if the smell was linked to the drains.
Oct 12 2005
