That Smell in Tangerine, Florida and Nearby Neighborhoods

  This post is for September 9th but is being published on September 10th due to a widespread internet outage.  Comments 9/9/2020 Oh my goodness!! Thank you!! This would be amazing if it can be resolved! Terry, Crissy Stile is running for state representative in our district. She has been fighting vigorously for us and has even gone to the Agriculture Commissioner. Her opponent has received the maximum donations from Shelley's Septic who we have been fighting since February 2019. Please support Crissy as she will support us We had one of our landfills in Zellwood where Hubbard Construction dumped construction materials too. We would get terrible odors. The odor would wake us up around 2 in the morning and just linger all day. We suffered for years. The EPA at the time said it was the drywall. It decays and causes hydrogen sulfide gas to be emitted into the air if the landfill does not have those automatic flares that burn off the gas. The EPA representative was at my house and...

The air in Tangerine and the surrounding neighborhoods have been free, for the most part, of the stink of Anuvia since mid-June. We can't rest too easy though, because Anuvia has plans to sell a lot of fertilizer in the future.  The latest update on Anuvia from the Orange County Environmental Protection Department indicated that they had been shut down since June 3, 2020. Anuvia has stated in the past they plan to ramp up production in the fall for the Spring 2021 planting season.  According to Total Landscape Care , Anuvia hired a new vice-president to " lead Anuvia’s efforts to build existing retail and distribution alliances while seeking to create new customer partnerships to further advance the sales of SymTRX, Anuvia’s bio-based, sustainable fertilizer." Anuvia is currently working with the Mosaic Plant in Plant City to utilize their space for fertilizer production while continuing to produce fertilizer [there.] This is general knowledge in the indu...

For Zellwood, Tangerine, Surrounding Neighborhoods April 22, 2020 A Note From the Editor We are now able to report odors to the FDEP online. We still need to send an e-mail or call Orange County to report to them.  No Odor Reports Today! Online Odor Reporting for FDEP Online Odor Reporting for Orange County (under construction) Letters and Correspondence Good afternoon, REDACTED, Thank you for your email. The intention of the Weather Log [the weather log is posted near the bottom of this post and there is a link in this e-mail]] was to notify residents of what information is most helpful when reporting their odor concerns to the Department and something they could use to track it accurately if they felt it helped. I understand that not all residents have access to a printer, the excel document can also be filled out on your computer and sent as an attachment. Anyone is still able to email or call DEP directly with any information or c...

For Zellwood, Tangerine, Surrounding Neighborhoods APRIL 7, 2020 Facebook  and  YouTube Zero Days Without A Smell Report We vote and we talk to voters Online Voter Registration Information A Note From the Editor We are getting traction. Please continue to write e-mails and make calls when you smell the odor. I sincerely appreciate everyone who is reaching out to help us get past this nightmare of stink. Your neighbors will thank you when this is over. I'll post a list below.  News I just got off a 36-minute phone call with Maria Repass regarding documentation. FDEP came up with a form and Orange County is expecting to roll out an online odor reporting form in a week or so. Maria is going to get with Ashley Gardner to see if they can standardize the information requested as the forms are slightly different. Orange County IT is a little overwhelmed helping people work from home but I feel confident that we'll see something online and ho...