Having lived at this address for 60 years, I have experienced the odors of the Weyerhaeuser pulp mill, the slaughterhouse on the river (now both gone), the malfunction of both Everett and Marysville sewer lagoons and the most constant, the Tulalip waste site. That, too, has been corrected.
Now we have Cedar Grove. Put yourself behind a farmer hauling silage, throw in a few wood chips and you are close to what it smells like to me. They tell you to call and report it. You will get a recorded announcement asking you to give your zip code, name, address, telephone number and a brief description of what you smell and where you think it is coming from. Inspectors are assigned by zip code, must begin at the reporting address and follow the odor to place of origin.
I was lucky once, an inspector heard my recording as I made it, came to the house, verified the smell and tracked it back to point of origin (guess who). One other time, an inspector called and asked me to step outside to see if it still smelled. I don’t know what she did after that.
Seems to me, if they get enough complaints they should have an inspector in the area, ready to be dispatched at once. I’m not interested in fining the offender, I just want it fixed.
Is it possible that it’s less expensive to pay the fine than to fix it? The easy way would be shut it down but I’d rather see them remedy the problem. Then everyone is happy. The telephone number to call and report the odor is 1-800-552-3565.
Donna Andersen
Marysville
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