Residents of an Enniskillen housing development are having their lives blighted by the smell of raw sewage, according to the Impartial Reporter newspaper.

Some people living on Danny's Mill Road have been reduced to tears as the smell takes over the area.

Although NI Water has added chemicals to the sewage to reduce the smell, residents say nothing has improved.

Resident Paul Johnston said: "Last year they brought in all the workmen and replaced the sewer and put in big manholes and everybody imagines that since that it has got worse.

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"They keep saying they're putting this chemical through the pipes but as far as I see they're making it worse."

Mr. Johnston understands that it is when pumps are switched on that the smell surfaces.

An NI Water spokesman explained: "One of the major trunk sewers in Enniskillen was installed over 30 years ago. Some years later Danny's Mill Road was built with several of the properties constructed fairly close to this trunk sewer, which now runs under the front gardens of the properties. Sewers by their nature have odours."

He said there was a proposal to divert the sewer elsewhere and an upcoming feasibility study would also look at the possibility of upgrading the pumping station.

The spokesman added: "This proposed work will be subject to funding approval prior to any work commencing on site."

(NE)