Portales does it smell due to the dairy? (places, water)

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by Fickle

We just moved to Portales in October...

It smells from time to time. When I go out in my backyard, at times, I think.. dang it smells like a dirty diaper gone wrong. It does smell and it is windy .. like WAY windy. My "grass" is brown, which I hope to somehow fix when spring hits with heavy watering and prayer. I have small black dogs and they come inside, after some playtime in the yard, covered in "hay".


Never move to Clovis/Portales if you can help it... that is... if you have ever liked or kind of liked the color GREEN or having a medium sized city near. If you have to choose.. Clovis or Portales to live in.. I would always pick Portales. Portales is a small college town and it just feels so much safer than Clovis.

/Smile if you are going to be stationed @ Cannon AFB... we are trying and hoping/praying to get plucked out of here ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well of course your grass is brown, its January

[New West 2020]

The Portales ethanol plant is down since gas prices crashed and the smell is gone. It used to smell like a brewery. Nobody seems sure if or when it will open again.

Portales, Clovis, Roswell and many parts of the Eastern New Mexico/West Texas dairy and cattle region catch occasional drifts of cow poop when the wind blows just right. Always look at Google Earth before you buy a house in the country, unless you like wearing nose plugs. Prevailing winds are from the south in the warmer parts of the year, so move south of any dairy and at least a half mile away.

The cow poop smell in Portales is now only occasional. The dairies are scattered and not too close to town, so in town is usually fine (now that the ethanol plant is shut). You do occasionally smell a "popcorn" smell when the grain dealer cooks corn and grain, usually in the winter.

Clovis has a big cattle feedlot on the south side of town and the smell there can be strong at times. Overall, this is nothing compared to some towns in West Texas, notably Hereford, where you simply cannot escape the cow poop smell, even in your house!

We view the clean air in the Portales area as a decent tradeoff for the occasional smell of cow poop.

[New West 2020]

I smelled cow **** tonight for the first time in 6 months in downtown Portales. But the safety and good schools are worth it and its 18 min to the base.

[GregW]

These operations are the most blatant examples of corporations using an "agricultural" exemption from pollution control laws to create dangerous conditions for the animals, workers, community and country in the name of profit. These companies should have the same emission limits and any other business. Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide are not only noxious they are poisons. The runoff from the manure pits kills anything in the area. These places need to clean up their act.

I wonder why they do not build manure digesters and capture the methane to provide the energy for their operations and any new pollution control devices

[nategdh]

Yes this area does smell do to dairies and the peanut factory also adds a little extra smell. In Clovis we have some smell as well. Its not bad in the city limits of clovis/portales its when you get out.

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by nategdh

Yes this area does smell do to dairies and the peanut factory also adds a little extra smell. In Clovis we have some smell as well. Its not bad in the city limits of clovis/portales its when you get out.

I tottally agree, its the smell of driving inbetween Clovis and Portales, or out in the country or inbetween Portales and Floyd.

I was in Amarillo last year at a strip mall and for some reason it smelled like a dairy really bad, it reminded me of Portales.

[mike b 1]

I agree, sjbasin. Any operation that lost hundreds of pigs per day would be bankrupt. Mina sounds like another disgrunteled vegetarian...bacon anyone??

[Fickle]

The smell and the flies!

Those two issues arent as bad in Clovis.. I am not saying they dont exist here... but they arent so ... LOUD!

[Fickle]

Originally Posted by desert sun

well of course your grass is brown, its January

Oh lord... Its brown all the time unless you drown it every single day.

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by Fickle

Oh lord... Its brown all the time unless you drown it every single day.

well yes, grass needs to be watered, we didnt drown ours everyday and the grass still grew like weeds.