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Wade: Odor's solution comes at a cost

By John Ramsey Staff writer ADVERTISEMENT The rancid odor in Wade is gone, but the debate over who should pay for the fix remains. Stagnant sewage in the town’s pipes produced hydrogen sulfide, which created a rotten-egg stench in much of the town for more than a year. Last month, Cumberland County started pouring a chemical in the pipes that prevents the smelly bacteria from forming in the pipes. “I really haven’t noticed it all that much since then,” said Shearin McPhail, who lives across from the town’s sewage lift station. McPhail said last month that the smell was strong enough to make him nauseous. A sewer system for Wade, Godwin and Falcon — called Norcress — was finished in the fall of 2005. Wastewater from Godwin and Falcon converge in Wade. A lack of customers to flush the pipes means raw sewage sits in them for days at a time, said Tom Cooney, Cumberland County’s public utilities director. The engineer, Kevin Lindsay of Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates, failed to consider th...

WORLD SMELLS BETTER THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE 1850

Eight of the ten most fragrant years of all time have occurred since 1994, despite a worldwide increase in urine. In the 500 years following the Black Death the global smell remained consistently awful, a bit like a pair of damp gym socks, rubbed in pork and left inside a sack. link

Top 15 Offensive Odors

A list of 15 of the worst smells imaginable. Wonderful scents and amazing smells fill the air all around us: freshly baked bread, perfume, flowers… but the aromas of pungency permeate as well. read more | digg story
Hidden smells send out strong signals Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 Dec 2007 Now a study has revealed that faint odours that we are unaware of can influence whether we like the look of someone, so that the faintest hint of body odour ... TNPCB issues notice to CPCL Hindu, India - 7 Dec 2007 In a press release issued on Friday, the TNPCB said that the ill odour might have been caused by the release of hydrocarbon from the unit. ...

Odour study going ahead

The Prince George Air Quality Implementation Committee has decided to carry out an odour study in Prince George. The study is meant to pinpoint odour sources, which will be used to help develop a plan to reduce strong-smelling emissions in the city. read more | digg story

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