That Smell in Tangerine, Florida and Nearby Neighborhoods

This e-mail exchange was between a community member and someone from the FDEP (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) 12/14/2020 8:18 am On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:18 AM Boyles, Sean Sean.Boyles@floridadep.gov wrote: Good morning,   I received the odor complaint that you provided on December 11, 2020. I live in the area and make it a point to drive-by the WWTF in the mornings when I need to go into the office. On that morning I drove around the 4 borders of the WWTF around 6:00am in the morning. No odors from the WWTF plant were noted. I also drive down Pond Rd, which is just to the east of the plant, and observed a very light sulfur odor. And I drove to the entrance of the Stoneybrook development and no odors were observed. That afternoon I received two odor complaints. I drove back to the WWTF and noted no odors and then drove to the landfill and observed the odor from the morning.   Just to give you an update, the WWTF has been working with an engineer to resolve a...

Welcome! As you know, Tangerine, Zellwood, and the surrounding neighborhoods have been plagued by some horrible smells in the last few years. There are a number of stinky business that has caused us to band together. We report the smell incidents in our Facebook group and send e-mails to our state and local officials when they occur. We welcome all of our neighborhood friends being held hostage by "That Smell." Some days it's so bad that we can't go out in our yards and, on the worst days, our dogs don't want to go out to "do their business." We used to complain to each other and then we realized that it was getting worse and we had to step up our game.  Possible culprits for the smell include Anuvia and Shelley's Septic Tanks in Zellwood, Mid-Florida Materials in Plymouth aka the materials dump, and the Monterey Mushroom Farm in Zellwood. There are other possible culprits including the industrial container recycling company and the Mount Do...

Complaints about the Mount Dora Disposal and Fill Dump