Odor Report 3/29/2020

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March 29, 2020

Zero Days Without A Smell Report

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The weather today is absolutely beautiful but the smell is disgusting. 

Odor Reports

1:18 am The smell is a 1 out of 10. It's becoming part of the background. [video]

7:50 Wow! So bad this morning! It is a 12 [on a scale of 1-10] at my house. My nose and throat feel like they are on fire. The dogs wouldn't even stay out and it is [usually] very difficult to get them to come in when it is cool in the morning.

8:00 am Just so everyone knows, I am emailing the governor again. I'm done with the do-nothing locals.

9:17 am I smell Anuvia. There is a slight breeze from the south. Tired of everyone being poisoned. 

11:17 am I am writing to the governor, tired of wasting my time with the locals.🤬

11:50 pm I was working in the yard from 3:30 until 7:15 today and the smell was slight at times and a bit stronger at other times. It was my constant companion. Perhaps I could have ignored it, but I took note. We shouldn't have to smell the stink from Anuvia period. 
I was working in the yard today and I came to the realization that I didn't see any lichens of the trees. Lichens are a weird combination of a bacterium or algae or A lichen is a composite organism that emerges from algae or fungi in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship. The fungi benefit from the carbohydrates produced by the algae or cyanobacteria via photosynthesis.
Lichens are equivalent to an early warning ‘canary’ for chemically sensitive vascular plants. In Europe, lichens have been used as sensitive bioindicators of air quality for more than a century. As with most vegetation, lichens show a range of sensitivities to pollutants. Not all lichens are sensitive to a particular pollutant, some can be remarkably tolerant. Among lichens are species that are sensitive to sulfur, nitrogen, acidity, halogens (e.g. fluoride), heavy metals and ozone.
Have you seen any lichens in your Zellwood, Tangerine, or nearby neighborhood? We used to have them in our yard.
#Zellwood #Tangerine #NorthwestOrangeCounty
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This is Anuvia Plant Nutrients new partner. Of course, Anuvia had nothing to do with this mess, but there is a lesson to be learned about how things can go very wrong when people and industries coexist. 

"Yet as the water drained down the hole, Mosaic employees, their consultants from Ardaman & Associates and state DEP inspectors all avoided saying the s-word. For 10 days they called it an “anomaly,” or “a water loss incident.”"

"Even after Mosaic and the DEP acknowledged that this new pond-draining event was a sinkhole, no one told the public what had happened. Florida law says neither the state nor the company involved has to notify anyone else about pollution spills until there’s some sign the pollution has migrated outside the property where it went into the aquifer. (As of the end of December, more than 1,000 tests of water from wells around Mosaic’s plant by a Mosaic contractor and by the DEP have not found any evidence it migrated into anyone’s drinking supply.)"

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