It’s surprising to hear people complain about the smell in their neighborhood when they live next to chemical plants, industrial parks, a swamp and a major regional land fill. The residents living in the vicinity of Wilroy Road are doing just that and demanding answers. Unless they couldn’t see the growing mountains of refuse, lacked the sense to smell or the previous owner was less than reputable when they sold them their home, the residents understood they were living in a neighborhood surrounded by warehouses, industry and a major land fill.
So what is causing the problem? Some blame it on the unusually wet weather that created foul smelling pools. Others point to SPSA’s inability to satisfactorily bury garbage with frozen earth, or the prevailing wind direction. Still others say it’s the very cold air temperature at night creating a blanket effect that prevents gases and odors from dissipating. Nevertheless the residents are owed a satisfactory explanation. They need to feel safe they aren’t being unnecessarily exposed to health problems. Commuters traveling I-64 near the J. Clyde Morris Blvd. exit have also noticed the strong odor from the adjacent land fill, so this problem may not be unique to Suffolk.
Deme Panogopulus
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These types of problems sometimes become near panic situations for residents. The smell permeates their clothes, carpets, curtains for months. Others take advantage of the misfortune of others. If there is anyone that knows about garbage it's Bennett.
I have traveled Wilroy Road daily for the past 7 years, usually late in the evening. Occasionally I am greeted with the wonderful smell of roasting coffee. It has only been since BASF has taken over the Ciba facility that I have noticed a putrid odor eminating from there. It is definitly chemical in nature and it is so bad I literally try to hold my breath as I drive by. Whatever is causing the smell may well be within government standards but that doesn't make it any easier to breath. That is the first place the city needs to investigate.
Whenever I travel up the New Jersey Turnpike to Elizabeth NJ, by the refineries, power plants and city dump the air becomes so bad you try to hold your breath as much as possible. The worst time was at night when stacks were blown clean and emissions could not be seen by the naked eye. Special cameras were set up that caught many of the violators. Perhaps the Health Department and EPA need to do likewise.
Suddenly the plight of the Nansemond River is being taken up by yet another special interest group. Why all of a sudden now? Do they want to stop the Real Nansemonds from building their village and halt any development whatsoever. They very well could be participants in re-directing a new bridge crossing to a more favorable location to satisfy political patrons liking and land holdings. Maybe they suddenly want to became marsh grass huggers and are falling into line with the Green Party since the Democrats appear to be falling out of favor. All in all, something smells about this group and it isn't even low tide.
Is global warming creating anciliary issues like global stink? As the temperature increases will there be more nasty smells assaulting our schnozzolas? Whenever I walk past a garbage can in the middle of summer there is a man made methane gas emissions generator. Over the millenia how will mankind evolve to counter the threat of a warmer, smellier world. If you are interested there will be a meeting at Nansemond River High School today to discuss Suffolk's contribution to global stink.
Noon today I took a trip down Nansemond Parkway by SPSA's facility regional landfill. The only noticable smell was the pleasant aroma of coffee. Maybe it was the wind direction or a cold air mass inversion that created the problem. BASF's stacks were quiet and not much else going on. Oh yes the tide was in.
The comment of a cover up by an irrate citizen threatening to call the NAACP and ACLU. Demonstrates how disconnected the Black Community has become. She should have correctly demanded the President, the Attorney General, all 34 Tsars and Spike Lee address the issue. We have become a society that is equal but separated by a functioning pre-frontal lobe.
Why are we not surprised about the methane gas rising out of SPSA's land fill. The cubic yards of gas released daily could be harnassed to generate electrical power. How could our city and the southside municipalities pass up such a unique opportunity to use of this enormous bio-mass resource. Think on it, our city motto could be changed to; When it comes to gas, think Suffolk.
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