Odor Report April 19, 2020


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Zellwood, Tangerine, Surrounding Neighborhoods


April 19-20, 2020

A Note From the Editor


I called Maria Repass a moment ago and left a message inquiring about the progress toward getting online odor reporting set up. This is my second call, I believe that I last called her last Monday. I know that the county is busy with the coronavirus response, so I will continue with my gentle inquiries.



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4/20/2020 3:30 am It smells BAD right now. The stench is coming in through my window and actually woke me up from a dead sleep shortly before 3:30 am. Disgusting. I’m on Willow. [The wind is coming in from the south, precipitation is 0.02 inches.]
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Dear Anuvia Nutrients,

I just listened to a February podcast on Innovation Forum, “Weekly Podcast: Future of Fertilizer”, that featured Anuvia Plant Nutrients CEO, Amy Yoder.  I appreciate the efforts your company is making to produce environmentally friendly fertilizers that increase soil productivity.  We all need to eat nutritious food.  A quote extracted from your Anuvia Plant Nutrients Facebook page states, "Anuvia addresses the three pillars of sustainability – social, environmental and economic – simultaneously by providing a way for organic materials to be used in a resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly manner that helps people, plants and the environment thrive.” 

Unfortunately, your innovative process is not environmentally friendly to the people who live around your plant in Northwest Orange County Florida; specifically Tangerine, Zellwood and surrounding neighborhoods. 

I have lived in the Tangerine Rural Settlement in Northwest Orange County Florida for about 10 years.  In the last couple of years, there are times when I cannot even walk out the door. As soon as I go outside, I am hit by the strong smell of fertilizer and/or hydrogen sulfide gas. I have to go back inside and wait until the smell goes away. Most of the time it just sits over us like a heavy cloud. My neighbors and I have often become captives in our own homes, and our pets also have to suffer. This smell causes me to have a burning sore throat, sore eyes, shortness of breath, dizziness, and cough; in fact I have had a dry cough for the last year or so. 

With the threat of COVID-19 upon us, we need plenty of fresh air and sunshine. We don't need to be suffocated by biogas. Fertilizer smell is fertilizer smell.  If I wanted to smell it, I would go to Lowe’s and walk through the fertilizer section. I would cut open a bag of fertilizer and stick my head into that bag. I don’t want to breathe this. It is displacing the 78% Nitrogen/21% Oxygen mix we and other creatures so depend upon. Your process is not people friendly to those of us that have to live in a deathly cloud of fertilizer outgassing.  

Please help us, by speeding up the replacement and improvement of your factory biofilters, or just stop until you fix it.  If you are unable to engineer this Essential change, our community is not the appropriate place for your factory.  I want to be able to breathe, and I don't want to die. A majority of my neighbors share my sentiments.  This is our community and your factory is ruining our daily lives and our property values. Your promise that these fertilizer gases would dissipate in the atmosphere has fallen short. I don’t think this is the message and image your company wants to convey to your host community and agricultural customers on Earth Day. 

We Need Clean Land, Clean Air, Clean Water, and Clean Food To Live

Best Regards

REDACTED

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