
08-06-2013, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
The odor was so bad last week that while playing golf, I has to hold a towel over my face. The guys at the starter shack said the smell was from fertilizer. In a way I agree, but in my opinion the product being used was what we called sludge. Sludge is the solid wasts from the sewer treatment plants, it is spread onto a flat surface of land and allowed to dry. I recall people in out small Illinois town lining up with their pickup trucks for a load of the dried sludge which they would use as fertilizer. 
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http://www.floridabay.org/pub/bw_report/sulfer.shtml
Similar odor problem.....different area.....
Last edited by senior citizen; 08-06-2013 at 09:08 PM.
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