Around the country, especially in rural areas, are a number of small sewage works that were excluded from the privatisation of the water industry.
It is for out-fall sewage works, and about one-tenth of the work has already been completed.
In fact, sewage works in the countryside protect it, because nobody would seek to build housing estates in the area.
But if sewage works, new roads, new houses or even airports are to be built, decisions on them cannot be taken at the parish level.
The effect will be that its housing proposals will be sited in the centre of the corporation's sewage works.
Methane produced from sewage treatment is already used extensively as a source of energy in sewage works.
Several different places have been suggested as sites for such a sewage works, but it has not been fixed at any point.
We hope that all who are responsible for sewage works will make certain—they have an obligation so to do—that the code is practised.
