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Originally Posted by villages07
There is no sewer treatment plant south of 466A.
All wastewater treatment for s of 466A is done at the facility near the Bacall golf course.
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Originally Posted by graciegirl
O.K.
Then why wouldn't it smell all of the time. Posters are saying they could smell it last night and this morning?
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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.  |
I think you have the answer -- the sludge from the sewer treatment plant is dried and spread --- then when the sprinklers go off it wets the sludge and there is the smell