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Originally Posted by BoatRatKat (Post 1451268)

Come over by the Sarasota Golf Range or the new Walmart they're building by Colony at any time of the day and I guarantee it's a smell much worse than the one you're smelling.

we played the Volusia....hills and valleys, awesome views..... great golf......we like to play around 5-6 and it SMELLS.....but the breeze is awesome

At first I thought the smell was the irrigation that's been going on since Irma. Seems like the dump is back in conversation.
This was covered about a year and a half ago.
If I recall many calls to the developer who at first denied, then admitted the odor was from the dump at that time took action.

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Originally Posted by BoatRatKat (Post 1451150)

I imagine this has come up on here before but I did a search and couldn't find any posts. Is the horrendous stench from the dump over by Colony going to ever be addressed by TV?

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Originally Posted by Wiotte (Post 1451319)

At first I thought the smell was the irrigation that's been going on since Irma. Seems like the dump is back in conversation. This was covered about a year and a half ago.
If I recall many calls to the developer who at first denied, then admitted the odor was from the dump at that time took action.

The odorous dump has been discussed on TOTV many times.

Does someone have a more precise location of the dump? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Retiring (Post 1451365)

Does someone have a more precise location of the dump? Thanks.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ght=smell+dump

Where is this dump exactly? Is it visible from Colony or the new Neighborhood Walmart? I've certainly smelled the offensive stench and wondered where the heck it was coming from the past few months.

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Originally Posted by BobsBurgers (Post 1451372)

Where is this dump exactly? Is it visible from Colony or the new Neighborhood Walmart? I've certainly smelled the offensive stench and wondered where the heck it was coming from the past few months.

Read my link in the post just prior. Number 20. It tells you what executive courses it is located next to.

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Originally Posted by BobsBurgers (Post 1451372)

Where is this dump exactly? Is it visible from Colony or the new Neighborhood Walmart? I've certainly smelled the offensive stench and wondered where the heck it was coming from the past few months.

Here's an aerial photo taken by 'twoplanekid' back in post #10. If you were in the new Walmart parking lot and were looking south at Moyer Loop and then got into a crane and went up about 500', this is what you would see. From the surface it is mostly hidden by hillsides on all sides and tress planted along the edge of the hill. Executive golf courses surround it on all four sides.

https://photos-6.dropbox.com/t/2/AAA...00&size_mode=3

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Originally Posted by kstew43 (Post 1451316)

I guess you will never want to eat there then......I love the place...

China Gourmet on Colony Blvd

The current score from the health department is 64 - out of 100. And a letter grade of U. I counted 15 violations. 4 were intermediate, and 3 high priority.

You might want to have an ER physician accompany you next time you go.

Source: What the Health Florida, from the App Store

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Originally Posted by Jim 9922 (Post 1451200)

"Mt. Morse" was well discussed several years ago when the Developer bought the whole dairy farm except the operating dump area. (who really wants to know what has been buried there over the years?); then turned the lemon into lemonade by building golf courses on the sides of the dump, planting pine trees around the top, and selling it as golf front property (which it is). In those days there weren't a whole lot of sales people who would voluntarily fess up as to what the "Pine Ridge" up in the slopes, in the "distance", really was. As for continued operations, the permit was recently renewed for several years into the future.
If you like the smell now, wait until the cool foggy November, February and March mornings after we've had several days of rainy weather. All that rotting "vegetation", those sulfides in the dumped drywall and construction debris, and the little bit of garbage that gets thrown into the construction dumpsters; sometimes they can't cover it over with dirt fast enough.
Rumor has it that Mt. Morse will be the base of operations for The Villages Astronomy Club when it is eventually capped over.
Hopefully the base ground layer was well constructed of clay and an adequate drainage system built so that the dump doesn't become a future polluter of our well water and that they are building a gas collector system to capture all the methane and other gasses created by the decomposing mound of debris. .
So all in all, yes, we have a dump in the middle of The Villages.

The developer did not purchase the “whole”dairy farm. He purchased some of the acreage left to the 1st Baptist Church of Leesburg in the will of the woman who owned the dairy farm. A second piece, retained by the Baptist Church, is going to be the site of a new church campus.

I don’t believe the developer owns the landfill. It is owned by Hewitt Contracting. Owner/officer info is noted below:

Key People Who owns Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc.
Name
Howard H. Hewitt 21
~ Background Report ~
President Secretary Director Treasurer
Sarah L. Hewitt 3
~ Background Report ~
Director Vice President
Harry W. Hawes 9
~ Background Report ~
Treasurer
Excel
Known Addresses for Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc.
PO Box 490697 Leesburg, FL 34749
3839 County Road 48 Okahumpka, FL 34762
3839 County Road 48P Leesburg, FL 34749

Hewitt also owns other similar sites in central FL.

No sense letting the developer take blame for something. A little research goes a long way.

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Yep, the same people owned Evergreen and its new knockoffs in Pinellas Plaza--Bon Apetite

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Originally Posted by BoatRatKat (Post 1451150)

I imagine this has come up on here before but I did a search and couldn't find any posts. Is the horrendous stench from the dump over by Colony going to ever be addressed by TV? Is there even anything that can be done? I would be furious if I bought over in Pine Ridge during a non-stink season and then had to endure that odor now. I'm sure the folks over in Sanibel smell it as well not to mention the poor folks that bought all those villas over by Walmart. I pass by there everyday and it's been particularly putrid over the past couple of months.

having lived here for 11 years I can tell you bad smells show themselves here from time to time and from a number of sources

After nearly 2 solid months of a very strong sewage smell, there was no odor today! I just posted this tread yesterday...TV works fast!! :smiley: