Abingdon sewage works currently serves more than 36, 000 people.
The water company has agreed to buy 75 GWh of this output to run Beckton sewage works, which serves 3.5 million people, and the nearby desalination plant, operated in times of drought or other emergencies.
If councils were allowed to tax such developments and keep the proceeds (as they are in other developed countries), then a bargain could be struck, with local people offered better services in return for hosting a noisy new road or an unsightly sewage works.
The power generated helps run the sewage treatment works next to the United Utilities plant.
Thus, the algae production plant should be placed in close mutual proximity with a power station and a sewage-works.
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The six vans run on biomethane gas generated from sewage treatment works.
Kelda Water Services and its sister company Yorkshire Water are supplying the council with the biogas, which is produced at their sewage treatment works in Sheffield.
And a bid to require Parliament to approve the terms and conditions of any financial assistance for major water and sewage infrastructure works was defeated by 300 votes to 231.
The scheme includes one kilometre of embankment and provides flood protection for Keadby Power Station, three sewage treatment works, two railway lines and three stations, the A614, the A616 and the M18 motorway.
There is a strong suspicion that if this oestrogen is not removed during sewage treatment (some works do, some do not), it causes serious damage to rivers and lakes.
Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.
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