Minister promises action on Mogden

Local MP Mary Macleod met with Dan Rogerson MP and called for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to do more to stop the odours coming from Mogden Sewage Treatment Works in Isleworth.

The Minister responsible for water, forestry, rural affairs and resource management met with Mary following her Parliamentary question in the House of Commons.  Mary was accompanied by Steve Taylor and Barry Edwards from the Mogden Residents’ Action Group.

During the meeting Mr Rogerson promised that he would push the Environment Agency to conduct checks on the Mogden site to ensure that Thames Water were adhering to the restrictions placed on them for odour emissions.  He said that some of those visits could be unannounced and would focus on the flow of sewage that comes through the storm tanks.  This is where the majority of the smell originates.

Mary had previously invited Mr Steve Taylor and Mr Barry Edwards of the Mogden Residents’ Action Group (MRAG) to a meeting in Parliament so that she could be kept up-to-date with developments at Mogden.  Mary decided that she would meet with the Minister to push for a solution to these long-running issues of odour and the discharging of sewage into the Thames. 

Mary will continue to press Hounslow Council for a proper Odour Reduction Survey to be completed, as well as more odour monitoring units around the perimeter of the site.

Mary, who has been liaising with MRAG over solutions to these ongoing issues, said:

“Mr Taylor and Mr Edwards have been doing an excellent job at raising the issues of Mogden residents with Thames Water and Hounslow Council. I hope that our meeting with the Minister will help Thames Water and the Council to find a permanent solution to reducing the odour. Mogden residents have suffered long enough and I am happy to see that the Minister is taking this issue seriously.”