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Did you smell something funky last night?
03/16/2016 7:29 AM by John M
Anybody else get this?
We live across from Chimbo Park and were wondering if anyone else in CH noticed the extremely bad odor in the air last night? It smelled like rotten eggs or “something” decomposing. Thought it could be gas. Husband thinks the smell is wafting from the water treatment plant (sewer) across the river.
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Not last night but similar odor several times, including this last weekend….(near Broad on 31st)
30 year resident of Church Hill. Have lived on Chimborazo Park for the last 20. If the wind blows just right we get the smell from the sewage treatment plant across the river near the Richmond Port. Happens about 2 or 3 times a year. Never lasts more than a few hours.
Thanks, but have to tell my husband he was right?
Yeah it happens quite often. I actually thought it was a gas leak one time and called the fire department. They said it’s sewage gas. It’s heavier than the air so when the wind blows it will move and then settle in an area. Then the wind blows again and it’s gone.
If it’s any consolation, it smelled like the Nabisco factory this morning at 28th & M.
Yeah. Smelled that this morning too. Was wondering if it might be from the new brewery at the bottom of the hill behind Chimborazo. Don’t know where they are in their startup process.
The sewerage treatment plant vents several times a week usually in the early morning ( 2 or 3 0’clock ). This will be a GREAT selling tool for those million dollar pent houses!
Are you sure it’s not the trees blooming? I know that sounds silly, but when I lived on Franklin, there were these trees that smelled like dog crap when they bloomed.
Brian, Female Ginko trees are the culprits… incredibly stinky, making you think you’d stepped in something… before the city knew any better and switched to the non-fruit-bearing trees.
That should be “Ginkgo.”