Whenever I hear from anyone associated with Cedar Grove Composting telling the community that they need to cooperate with their efforts to deal with the odor problem I get extremely angry. We have owned our home on the hill by Cedarcrest Golf Course for over 17 years. In that time we have had the ability to enjoy being out in our yard. That is, until Cedar Grove set up shop below us.
Now not only can we not be outside in our yard without getting sick to our stomachs from the odor that Cedar Grove has created, we have to leave our windows closed so the stench does not enter our home.
We were here first and in all of the time that we have lived here we have not done anything that has impacted the people around us like Cedar Grove has. They chose to do business in their current location so they alone need to deal with the problems that their odor creates for the people around them.
I would like to know who decided that they should be allowed to locate where they did without thoroughly researching the problems that would be created for all of us. Deciding to let them do business on the low lands between Everett, Marysville and Tulalip should have sent out signals that this was a bad idea.
Perhaps it is time to go back even further than Cedar Grove and place the responsibility for this mess on the agencies that allowed this to happen in the first place.
Either way, I have no sympathy for Cedar Grove and their odor problem. I also do not need to cooperate with their efforts when I am a prisoner in my own home, thanks to them.
Cedar Grove, clean up your act or move to a location that will not cause so many problems for the true victims of this mess.
Carol Whitney
Marysville
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