IF you’ve ever wondered what that stench is across Hamilton on occasion, you can be forgiven for thinking it smells like effluent, because that’s what it is - human sewage.

A comment on Hamilton Victoria’s Community Group Facebook page over the weekend triggered commentary and complaints from Hamilton residents exclaiming surprise at the revelation that human waste from Camperdown was being ‘dumped’ at the Hamilton Sewage Treatment Plant on the corner of Beath and Henderson Street.