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Re: What is that smell?

Subject: Re: What is that smell?
From: Damon Hill
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:48:46 -0500
Newsgroups: sci.energy.hydrogen
"Guardenman" <m.frisch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:7flFe.7670$VG6.6246@xxxxxxxx: 

> Please excuse me if this is off topic. It's just that I know from
> lurking in this group, that lots of real smart people post here. So
> here is my question. I work in Newport News Virginia. When I drive
> home I get on this access road under the interstate. It is one of the
> lowest points in the area. It often smells strongly of sulfur. Could
> this be the result of thousands of catalytic converters over head? Or
> perhaps the nearby coal yard? They don't burn coal there they just
> load it off trains onto ships. If anyone is local, it is the entrance
> to Interstate 664 at terminal road and fourteenth street. It doesn't
> always smell like that but some days it is far worse than others.

Possibly you have a paper mill in the area?  Or perhaps a gas
main is leaking.  Might want to report it to your local gas company.

Out here in the PNW, it's known as the Aroma of Tacoma.

--Damon


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