From your child’s hospital bed, so close you can smell it and see where the ‘highly putrescible primary sludge’ first comes on site
The Shieldhill Prelimary Works, [Pre-sedimentation] at the end of Hospital Boulevard, on the right, a few hundred metres from the QEUH main entrance with the Royal hospital for Children where a much-reported cancer ward death linked to bacterial infection took place.
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He writes:
I rarely use Google or Grok but looked on streetview and my horror was renewed. The image dates confusingly varied from 2014-2026. Follow Hospital Boulevard through to Hardgate Rd and look straight ahead at the massive presedimentation plant and travel down Hardgate Rd along the extensive multi-storey length. Travel back along Hospital Boulevard and look between the lab/mortuary building (look for ‘no entry’ signs) and the most distal hospital building, intended for lab vehicles and see how close the ‘Pre-sed’ building is. And just in front of that last hospital building the fun really begins…you are right next to the tanks of shit. Then the pavement takes an inward bend so you are even closer. They’re trying to screen it with bushes but the horror that Prof R describes as contaminating the car park is just outwith touching distance. Then turn left into Renfrew Rd and travel past the entrance to Shieldhall Waste Water Treatment Works across Renfrew Rd (the processing site) before reaching ‘Gate 3 Shieldhall Waste Transfer Station’ where you can see the hospital loom over the sewage buildings right next to it.
This is the Gate 3 Shieldhall Waste Transfer Station…sign visible on right, lorry emerging might be carrying un-processable waste from ’pre-sed’. Up ahead hospital entrance on right. Shieldhall WWTW on left (entrance building directly on main road).
Would this be the least or the most inappropriate part of a sewage works to site near a hospital?
It would sit toward the most inappropriate end of the scale, not the least. Primary (pre-)sedimentation tanks still contain raw sewage and highly putrescible primary sludge. They have a large open surface area, overflow weirs that strip hydrogen sulphide, and sludge that turns septic quickly if it is not removed promptly. Those features make them one of the classic odour sources on a works, along with the inlet screens/grit plant and raw-sludge thickening or dewatering. A hospital is a sensitive receptor: patients, ventilation intakes, and infection-control concerns.
This one is around 200 metres away with the hospital often downwind. The new main hospital for the Falkirk area was moved from 1.5 miles to 3 miles away and still fully upwind. I can find no major hospital in the world built next to a sewage works.
The pre-sedimentation works run in parallel with the large staff car park behind the railings on the right and downwind. At the end of this road and to the right, five further settlement tanks are adjacent to the northern edge of the same car park, guaranteeing staff a bacterial bioaerosol shower, hair and clothes, almost every day. They’ll be strong enough for that but their patients may not be.
Talking-up Scotland 
I hesitated to “like” this. Feel nauseated just reading it and looking at the pictures.
Anyone in the MSM taken this up yet? Crickets?
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Haven’t see anything. Let me know if you do please. John
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