Homeowners 'disgusted' after stream of foul smelling greywater trickles through Sheffield street for over six months

The Star, Sheffield

Homeowners say they are 'disgusted' at how a stream of foul smelling greywater has been allowed to trickle through a Sheffield street for over six months, while Yorkshire Water and Sheffield City Council both seem unable to say who is responsible.

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00:00Good afternoon Sheffield, it's Alistair from the Sheffield Star. I'm speaking to you from Ashfur

00:04along Road and the Door area where you might be able to see behind me there's quite a disgusting

00:08muddy patch going on right here. What you're seeing here is there is a small maintenance hole

00:12or man cover in the road behind me that has been nowhere around it leaking either sewage or grey

00:17water for the past six months residents have told me. Since the early start of spring or so there's

00:22just been this really disgusting, I can smell it right now, a really disgusting smell in the area

00:26and this whole road behind me is just kind of damp, there are leaves all pulled up here that

00:30are just soaked in it to be fair and it's just absolutely putrid. The problem is that it also

00:34seems to be going all the way around the bend into a further part of the road down that way

00:39so it's been leaking like this for about six months and residents called us up to say they

00:42kind of had enough of it. A lot of residents have told us today what they've been dealing with,

00:46you might be able to see a small tyre track here where people are backing out of their homes and

00:49have to drive through it and if they come home they've got to drive through it again and take

00:53it up onto their own drive. One person telling us they sit in their own garden or if they're

00:57just at home they smell it from there basically. One lady was saying they have to pick up their

01:01dogs and carry it through there because it's better than letting the dog walk through there.

01:05A man was saying that he doesn't let his grandchildren play out here or ride their

01:08bikes for example in case they end up in it or they don't dare once they even touch it.

01:12What I've done so far is I've spoken to Yorkshire Water and the Sheppard City Council trying to ask

01:17who might be responsible for it and indeed while we were down here earlier we caught a Yorkshire

01:21Water truck that seemed to be doing some kind of work with either pumping it out or just expecting

01:26it in the meantime. Another resident told us that just the other night there were at least

01:29five or six vehicles that arrived quite late in the evening and were doing more pumping work.

01:35All sorts of rumours about where it could be coming from, if it's an old septic tank seems

01:39to be the number one rumour there might be an old septic tank under the ground here. It's a

01:43fairly new build estate and there might be some long lost piece there that's now cracked and is

01:47now spilling out. Others are saying just simple sewage, others saying a culvert or a spring that's

01:52now like pushing water through through a septic tank, we don't know. Either way we're speaking

01:57to Yorkshire Water, we're speaking to the City Council to see if we can find out what's responsible and

02:01all residents want to see is a kind of stop to it so it stays dry for once so we'll see what happens.

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