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Letter: Losing sleep and patience over stink

Why, oh why, is the horrendous rotting smell still polluting Richmond?! This is happening more often and the stench is stronger than ever before. Even inside a closed door and window home/workplace, the smell seeps inside and becomes trapped.
Harvest
CEO says Harvest Power will invest millions of dollars to upgrade the facility, which has been the subject of numerous complaints. CBC.ca photo

Why, oh why, is the horrendous rotting smell still polluting Richmond?!  This is happening more often and the stench is stronger than ever before. Even inside a closed door and window home/workplace, the smell seeps inside and becomes trapped.

We are forced to breathe this putrid odour into our lungs. I begin sneezing, my eyes water, my shoulders tense and my jaw clenches. When it happens in the middle of the night, I lose hours of sleep. It is like sleeping in a sewer.

How dare that continue to happen?!  It’s actually abuse. Never in my life has someone forced toxic items upon me.  

This was a very bad mistake to put a composting plant in the middle of a large city area. Please take steps to correct it.

That may involve moving it far out to the farmland, and putting a mound around the entire complex because Harvest Power is obviously not taking any significant steps.    

Is Harvest going to be allowed to continue as they are?

I would like some answers, because if this continues, I am getting out of Richmond — my once beautiful city, which I now detest living in. Could someone please tell me that Harvest will be stopped? It can’t happen too soon!!  

Melody Davies

Richmond