Odor Report 3/22/2020

The Daily Sludge Report

March 22, 2020

Zero Days Without A Smell Report

Check back for updates as reports come in-

Please note that odor reports are from a voluntary Facebook group and each odor report represents an unknown number of individuals who are also aware of the smells that are permeating our neighborhoods. Not all odor events are reported due to the pervasive nature of the smell. If we reported every event, we'd get nothing else done due to the intermittent nature of the odors. Now we are concerned that our respiratory irritation could predispose us to Coronavirus. I'm not even sure that they should even be open during this time. 



LA Times Article on Pollution and Coronavirus 


Posted on Anuvia's FB page tonight

Please Help Me Get Rid of This Smell so I Can Do Other Stuff

 9:00 am I smell a nasty sweet poopy smell. Dora/Dudley. It has to be local to this area. Is anybody digging up a septic drain field? Is it rotting infected feces? And it has now changed to a more burned chemical smell. 

10:00 am Sulfur smell 1 on a scale of 1-10. Reported by 2 people. I smelled it later around 5 pm as well. [Lake Ola Drive and Earlwood Street]


8:32 pm: wind ESE 4 mph: 78 degrees: 58 percent humidity. Walked outside, bad smell: eyes started burning. Took a ride down Jones avenue, no smell along the road but faint smell at the gate of Anuvia and the gate was open, cars inside and lights on. Had the windows down and eyes really bothering me. Took a ride down Willow Street: at the corner where the road takes a turn smell intensified: took the turn and turned the car around in the subdivision on the left. Stopped the car with the work does down on Willow street directly behind Annuvia— very bad smell and eyes stinging and burning. back at my house 9:05 Faint smell still. Eyes stopped burning After several minutes in the a/c. This cannot be good to breathe!!! [Lake Ola Drive, Jones Avenue, Willow Street]

 I just sent Anuvia 2 texts and I'm waiting for the screenshots to migrate to my laptop so I can post them. Basically, I told them that I am concerned about us breathing this respiratory and eye irritant. I came out and asked them why they are open. I'm going to write an open letter to Anuvia about this. While waiting for the photos to migrate, I called Anuvia and left a voicemail asking why they are open during this time of crisis. If you want to do so as well, the number is 352-720-7070. [Lake Ola Drive]

I was going to send them a tweet but twitter notes that there is suspicious activity coming from that account. I'm afraid to open their profile... I don't need to pick up a virus.

Those poor people who live on Willow getting the brunt of #TheSmell. [Greater Country Estates]

It gets BAAAAAD on Willow. Yesterday we didn't even have AC on in the morning and our apartment was filled with the stench. [Willow Street]

[Zellwood resident] It is really badddddddddd.

Would you call Anuvia and leave a voicemail? 352-720-7070. Answer: yes.

Please see REDACTED'S earlier post tonight. I am so over this smell. I cannot see how a fertilizer plant is "essential business." They are exposing us to eye and respiratory irritants via their stack. At regular times it's an irritation. With the Coronavirus, they are putting anyone susceptible in harm's way by putting irritants our in the air. Please call Anuvia at 352-720-7070 and leave them a voicemail telling them how the smell affects you.

I posted the texts I sent to Anuvia on their FB page


There is no map tonight. Blogger won't let me add additional digital files. Possibly they are updating their software tonight. 

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