I have recently moved to Westbury and witnessed Air Pollution from a cement works owned by a company called Lafarge
I enclose a photograph as proof , could you please let me know the outcome of your investigation.
Yours Faithfully
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http://www.westwiltshire.gov.uk/index/env/pollution/air-pollution/air-pollution-make-complaint.htm
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Date: 19 March 2008 22:39:25 GMT
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Dear AW
Thank you for your prompt reply to my e mail "copy below this e mail"
Perhaps the perspective of the first e photograph did not give you the full picture! you will see from this new picture that there is residue smoke pollution! hanging in the sky unlikely to be steam.
Respectfully I await your comments.
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Dear
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the La Farge Cement Works.
Judging from your photo it appears that much of the discharge is steam. Should you wish to pursue the matter I would refer you to the Environment Agency who "Permit" ie. authorise the process at this site. They can be contacted on 08708 506506.
We hold some public records of emissions data which you would be able to view at these offices should you wish to do so.
Kind regards
Environmental Health Officer
Dear David,
Thank you for this. I have just returned from Bratton and Capps Lane after helpful 1 to 1 meetings with some residents including Phil and Tracy Barthram- what a charming couple, which should help us progress this matter, I hope.
Yours,
Tim Loveday
From: David Levy [mailto:levy@dr52.fsnet.co.uk]
Sent: 22 August 2008 11:49
To: Loveday, Tim
Subject: Re: 19/08/08
Dear Tim,
To respond
Sunday 17th August 5.55am wind direction towards Devizes light winds clear view of emissions against blanket grey cloud cover . Plume grounding at several places approx1.5km from plant and again at about 3.5 km. Emissions seemed to be spiralling along from the plant quickly settling into a strata like band of emissions. These plume grounding incidents had a short duration less than I minute
Monday 18th August 6.50am wind direction towards Bratton Valley brisk winds plume more roller coaster and broken in appearance. Grounding within 1 km of the plant and again between Bratton and Edington on fields Skies variable in colour including blue sky
3.45 pm returning winds had slighty turned towards Steeple Ashton and also slightly weaker .Duration of grounding about 2 minutes Emissions appeared to ground about 1.5 km from plant.
Tuesday 19th August 5.35am different route taken which took me past the The Ham, Westbury
Similar conditions to Monday am skies grey, winds brisk plume fluffy in appearance and sky overcast. Wind towards Bratton direction again brisk Grounding appeared to be about 2km from plant and again further down the valley difficult to assess distance
Regards David
----- Original Message -----
From: Loveday, Tim
To: David Levy
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: 19/08/08
Dear David,
Thank you for this observation. It would help with our current investigations into plume behaviour if you could provide a little more detail if you can remember it, eg:
day/date/time(s)
locations where plume grounding appeared to be taking place
general weather at the time
This is so I could relate it to local weather monitoring station data.
Thank you,
Tim Loveday
From: David Levy [mailto:levy@dr52.fsnet.co.uk]
Sent: 19 August 2008 16:46
To: Loveday, Tim
Cc: Stephen Eades
Subject: 19/08/08
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Dear Tim,
For the past three days I have taken a different route to
work that took me down the Bratton Valley and I have
directly witnessed five plume grounding incidents in a
range of time between 6am and 7am to 3.45 -4.15pm. So these
incidents happened on rural agricultural ground with little
housing around
David
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Sent:
Tuesday,
September 23, 2008 9:38 PM
Subject:
Lafarge
plume
Hi
David,
Here are
the photos I took about 11am this morning (Sept 23,
2008) while up at the White Horse. I
first noticed that the plume was dropping
heavily towards the ground while I was walking down
towards Newtown from Beggars Knoll about 9:45am but
didn't have my camera with me at that
time. We did not smell the chimney because the
wind was strongly in the East, and
I was glad not to be in Westbury
today, breathing in all that haze from the
chimney!
I sent
these pictures to Alice Davis at the Environment
Agency late
this afternoon.
Cheers,
Penny
Stirling
Sent:
Monday,
September 29, 2008 11:44 AM
Subject:
Plume
grounding over Bratton 29 September approx 11:am
Tim,
This is the worst I have seen plume grounding over Bratton
at approx 11:00 today. It is still slightly grounding now
but nothing like when these pictures were taken. The severe
conditions lasted at least 15 minutes.
We were out in our fields taking water to our animals when
we looked at the hills and spotted this. Initially it was
worse than the pictures we took show. We raced back to get
the camera which took 5-10 minutes. Take a look at the
photos.
This did not affect us on our property but I dread to think
what it was like in Bratton. All around it is a beautiful
clear day apart from the plume.
First photo just shows the plume going up. But then it can
be clearly seen going down and onto Bratton.
In one shot you can see the contrast between an area with
the plume and an area without it.
Its a crazy world we live in where this can happen even
though the environment is an important contemporary
issue.
I will send another email with a few more pictures as
hotmail has an attachment size limit.
Regards
Phil
