A permanent stop notice was issued by Suffolk County Council on FGS Agri for its site near Wattisham air base between Hadleigh and Stowmarket on January 20. (Image: Contributed)The sludge was reported as creating a "foul stench". Inspectors found that operators had failed to take measures to prevent rain from washing sludge into nearby streams. Dan Pratt, Deborah Saw and Robert Lindsay at the site before it was shut down. “It would kill all animal life in a pond, stream or river.”A crack in the containment structure where the sludge was held.