Holly Hill, SC (WIS) – A community continues to advocate for a waste treatment company to put a breach in what they said to be an unbearable odor.
Residents of the County Orangeburg near Holly Hill said that the stench came from the Synagro waste recycling installation. The company provided that smell consultants assess the source of the smell last Friday.
Now officials have said that the evaluation had since been delayed due to market procurement problems.
Residents who attended a city council meeting on Monday said they were less than optimistic about some of Synagro’s written plans to resolve the stench.
“You go out … and you return right away. He destroyed a lifestyle,” said Kate Copesy, resident of Holly Hill.
On Friday, a Synagro spokesperson told Wis that the company hoped to reprogram its odor consultant to carry out the reprogrammed evaluation on Monday.
But the mayor of Holly Hill, Billy Chavis, said that contract problems between Synagro and the consultant are what is due to the delay.
Chavis explained that, although Synagro has produced part of his March action plan to blur the smell, there is a fine line that the company walks to reduce the smell and comply with the state permit directives.
“They cannot add chemicals to the treatment because they have microorganisms in this lagoon and insects that eat the sludge,” said Chavis. “That if you start to add chemicals, 1. you will violate your license. 2. You will kill your microorganisms and you are not going to make compost.”
There remains a hope in the last element of action of the company on the plan issued in March. Adopt the waste lagoons, which is an agreement that the city hopes that the company will assert and solve the problem.
“We have no more choice now than to sit here and bite it until Synagro is good and do what they say they are going to do. And then I hope to get this smell of air. Or, we will have to look at other means,” said Chavis
A step that Synagro has taken to help the neighbors is to relaunch its trucks and oblige these trucks carrying waste or compost to be covered when you travel in and out of the installation.
Synagro said the lagoons should be bubbling on April 25.
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