Camas Paper Mill smell

[Ra-zone]

Originally Posted by klpeake

We have been looking all over Clark County for houses and haven't really settled on any one area. I really like the Camas mountainous area just north of the Camas schools from NE 28th St/Brunner Rd and North. (actually in the city of Vancouver but the Camas school district). But I am wondering about the paper mill (rotten egg) smell. When I was up there in Oct. of last year I smelled it as I was driving through downtown Vancouver, but have never smelled it in the 4 subsequent trips. Now I know that the paper plant's a odor reduction program imposed by the government require stage 2 compliance as of April 16th, 2006 and so it may be that they have done some drastic things in the last year. Is there anyone that lives in that area that can tell me more. How bad is the smell? Is it just certain times of the year? Has it gotten better in the last year?

Thanks,

Karol

I talked to someone at the Mill who said it wasn't the culprit. She thinks it was from the sewage processing plant near the mill.I called the SW air polution office and spoke to a man who doubted it was the sewage processing plant, but he will follow up and see if anything happened yesterday that would have affected the area.

[StealthRabbit]

Have you taken a 5 min drive down to the mill ponds and the sewer plant first?

I would do that BEFORE rattling any swords.

SWWCAA They are located clear up in Hazel Dell and are the last people I would want alarmed.

Maybe the mill got in a bunch of different feedstock, or they just turned a couple ponds.

Weather has been strange last week with some inversions, that is likely the issue. A bit tough to control the weather, but possible.

[crjb1]

We live on Prune Hill. Only smelled it faintly once in the last year. The air quality here is really great, especially compared to Portland where they are lower in elevation and the dirty city air pools up down there. The winds almost always blow east or west along the river, so there's rarely penetration north of the river where we live and even further north where you're looking. Non-factor. It's actually a great place for a paper mill, as it's windy there so it disperses very quick.