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Speaker 1: Do you remember the smell in Bromley in christ Jews

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Speaker 1: that we've talked about on the show. Well, it's still

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Speaker 1: there and it is worse. The horrific extension emitsing from

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Speaker 1: a faulty wastewater treatment plant has got worse in recent weeks.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the Council says it is going to be another

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Speaker 1: week before they can get it back under control. Stephen

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Speaker 1: mcpaig is a community advocate and is with us now. Hi, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Stephen. We spoke to you about this. I

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Speaker 1: had to look back May twenty twenty two, so it's

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Speaker 1: nearly four years ago and it is still going on.

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Speaker 1: The smell. How can it still be going on?

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Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure that one out. The graphs

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Speaker 2: that the council released with all the hydrogen sulf life

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Speaker 2: has been increasing since the end of September and now

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Speaker 2: it's to a place where the whole city spinks and

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Speaker 2: it's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: So okay, how much worse has it got?

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Speaker 2: It's just as bad as what happened when the I happened.

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Speaker 2: It's not a little bit worse. At the moment, the

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Speaker 2: wind is blowing from Bromley over the city and it's

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Speaker 2: just thinking out everything.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely I mean, I feel bad for the people

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Speaker 1: of christ huge, but is it not a good thing

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Speaker 1: that everybody's getting a taste of what you've had to

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Speaker 1: live with for the last four years.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I wouldn't recommend this on my enemy, let alone

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Speaker 2: my friends or my neighbors. It's it's so hard to

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Speaker 2: describe it. It's like rotten human waste that's burnt and

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Speaker 2: the smell just sticks to everything. Sorry, I just can't

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Speaker 2: describe it more than that.

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Speaker 1: So basically, okay, burnt po basically now, I think I

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Speaker 1: think in order, the timeline at least for getting it

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Speaker 1: completely under control and you people smelling normal smells is

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Speaker 1: about three years. They can't go any faster than that.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping they can go faster than that. The activated

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Speaker 2: sludge system that they want to install normally takes around

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Speaker 2: five years. The council is trying to do three years,

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Speaker 2: and I'm really hoping they can do it at in

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Speaker 2: less than that two years maximum. I hope.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got any compos Sorry, have you got any

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Speaker 1: compo for this at all?

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Speaker 2: No? I haven't. I live outside the area from the

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Speaker 2: last compensation that they gave out to the community and

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Speaker 2: that was a shambles. This year they haven't even discussed it.

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Speaker 2: There is no inkling from council that they want to

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Speaker 2: give us any compensation because of the stench.

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Speaker 1: Well mate, all we can do is hope you, hope

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Speaker 1: you know, wish you the best of line, because it

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Speaker 1: really does sound like I'm quite a thing to have

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Speaker 1: to live through that. Stephen mcpaigue, a community advocate for

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Speaker 1: the people dealing with the smell, and Bromley.

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