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The Columbus Dispatch wrote
Downtown’s stench has a $5.5 million solution
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
By Dean Narciso
Columbus has budgeted $5.5 million to install biofilters which they say will reduce annoying sewer gases that seep from Downtown’s underbelly.
Columbus’ project will begin in November 2009 and be complete by August 2010, said Rick Tilton, assistant public utilities director.
Cleve Ricksecker, executive director of the Discovery and Capital Crossroads Special Improvement Districts, is working on a quicker fix.
With plans for Downtown housing in the area, Beatty said, “It’s certainly an issue they’re going to have to address.”
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Downtown’s stench has a $5.5 million solution
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I’ve never noticed any smell.
I’ve smelled something occasionally… but nothing like what this article describes. :?
The title reminds me of something from The Daily Show.
I would think GV has it the worst
me no can spell
At the corner of Spring and Marconi the smell is sometimes overpowering.
Most times I walk around downtown I don’t notice any smell, I think it is mainly localized to certain locations.
There is one spot I’ve noticed in GV… on the corner of Third and Sycamore, right by the Starbucks there is a sewer smell that is more often there than not. I wouldn’t call it overpowering or anything. And it really doesn’t reach far beyond a 10 food radius of the sewer drainage. It just smells like you walked through someone’s fart.
I blame Starbucks!
But yeah, I’ve never smelled anything in the rest of GV.
Ha! Yes! Our favorite jogging route begins and ends there… Enough to make you want to turn around and go back inside :)
But agreed, it’s the only spot I’ve noticed.
I lived right downtown when I was a freshman at CCAD and Columbus smelled.
the stench is there, and for those who’ve never gotten a whiff of it, consider yourselves lucky.
we take a lot of walks down through the Arena District, and there a days when you pass a grate in the summer and it nearly makes you wrench.
we’ve witnessed it so many times, that anytime we get a whiff of sewer stench we actually refer to it as “columbus sewer smell” even when we’re in other places. so i’m glad to see they’re doing something about it.
sometimes i can smell it in certain parts of the brewery district as well.
Lemme guess…the corner of Blenkner and Wall?
I wonder what exactly these $5.5 mil “biofilters” actually consist of?
Maybe the should just buy loads of Glade Plug Ins and place them around the grates!
:lol:
Well, I suppose that $5.5 million in biofilters is more aesthetically pleasing solution than what I’ve seen done elsewhere – including, for a time, on campus – build concrete cylinders up 6-8 feet high where the sewer grates are, to vent the smell above most folks heads… then use the cylinders as signposts for people to post all their flyers & crap on.
Plus the smell, while not AS noticeable, was definitely still there.
Lemme guess…the corner of Blenkner and Wall?
yup.
yeah, i work by nationwide arena and some days when you just open the door to go outside, the smell hits you in the face like a ton of bricks! *gag* biofilters seems like a weird resolution though… is it kind of like a furnace filter that will need replacing? why don’t we all just stop pooping so much? that’s my vote.