Comments on: From the ‘what was THAT?’ department: Mystery odor

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:46:01 +0000

I work right there and it is the business with the barrels stacked up in my opinion. It smells of a burning/chemical smell. It is frequent but alternates days and times, it can be really strong and I always wonder what im breathing.

By: Jeff platt

Jeff platt — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:23:29 +0000

I live on the hill at the end of holden
The smell was the factory exhaust from the river area
The plant turns on early and with the lazy air that day it made its way to our hood.
Most days it blows northwest but yesterday it was headed right for highland park
I dont know what the plant or factory makes but it stinks
i was right about the hum too
Its the factory north of where the hum came from

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:01:45 +0000

I live in Arbor Heights and I have been smelling a chemical smell off and on for at least the past two to three years. It kind of smells like Chlorine. Yesterday it was particularly strong. I have never reported it, because I have not heard anybody else complain about it.

I am going to log in a complaint now.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

This is the same smell that recurs every so often. It is likely a byproduct from the cement plant burning or whatever it does…have looked into this on numerous occasions, but the air quality folks say they can’t really do anything about it because it’s too hard to track. Gross and not healthy for us. See http://www.pscleanair.org/programs/community/southpark/air_monitoring.aspx

By: YMa

YMa — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:31:20 +0000

We’ve had 2 different odd smells the past couple of evenings -around 7:30 – 8:30 pm. One was an ammonia-ish odor & last night very fishie. So strong at one point I thought the cat had gotten into his treats – but no. Can’t figure it out.

By: m

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:26:33 +0000

So it seems we’ve gone from “the hum” to “the smell?!”

By: kate

kate — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:03:17 +0000

Meth?

By: iggy

iggy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:43:56 +0000

Like Amanda, we smelled it last week at Westwood. Was like the smell of burning oil.

By: Greenpeace

Greenpeace — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:18:29 +0000

Gross! Did they ever figure out the source?

By: I. Ponder

I. Ponder — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:40:27 +0000

I think it was something my neighbor was cooking.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:43:20 +0000

We smelled it last week Wednesday as well in Westwood. Called 911, and reported it to Pugetsoundairquality.org. It was strongest at 9:30 ish, and gone by 11:00am. I had a friend in Georgetown that smelled it as well, called 911, but they chalked it up to someone welding? Maybe her smell and ours was different, but it sure is strange.

By: WSB

WSB — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:36:17 +0000

Two notes:
1. There are other industries in the area as well, if it was from an industrial source.
2. I neglected to mention this – it’s important. Serious stink is an air-quality issue. Report it to pscleanair.org.

By: Nemobean

Nemobean — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:49 +0000

Poor LaFarge…always getting the blame.

Kind of like the RED HEADED STEP CHILD! LOL!!!

By: comment

comment — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:23:20 +0000

I smelled something like chlorine and sulfur while driving. Thought it was my battery but when I parked at home I couldn’t smell anything.

By: DBM

DBM — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:44:03 +0000

LaFarge??