Weird and bad smell near beginning of Herman's Gulch trail

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Re: Weird and bad smell near beginning of Herman's Gulch trail

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jibler wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:03 pm what about the sewers from the Loveland ski area?

they can't possibly put all that into septic tanks - right?


there may be a sewer line running down I 70 to georgetown maybe??
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From Loveland's Master Plan....

"5. Waste Water Treatment
Loveland’s waste water treatment plant is located at the Valley, just east of “Parking Lot D”,
refer to Figure 9. At 7,248 square feet in size, this facility houses sewer and snowmaking
pump functions.
The treatment plant consists of a standard activated sludge package plant with chlorine
injection and then de-chlorination. The plant has excess capacity for existing conditions and
can handle up to 6,600 guests per day.
Alignments of the sewer connection lines are shown on Figure 14."
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rijaca wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:23 pm
jibler wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:03 pm what about the sewers from the Loveland ski area?

Loveland’s waste water treatment plant


where there's waste water treatment plant's - there's a stink
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rijaca wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:04 pm ethanol production plants nearby. Really? :-k
Really.
The other job done at the ethanol plant can create a more pungent aroma. The ethanol plant also burns flax, straw and Specified Risk Materials (SRM) from the prairie slaughter industry to create a more sustainable source of thermal energy for their facility. This end of the business is undertaken by NorAmera Technologies Inc., which is also owned by W.I.T.
Lee de Vries, a special care aide at Tatagwa View, said the smell of burning animal products was very easy to identify.

"One day we opened up a window and a nurse I was working with said that smells like a burning animal carcass. She grew up on a farm and that is a smell that you don't forget," de Vries remembered.

That's my SWAG as to what the smell is.
Here is a link to where I got this information.
https://www.sasktoday.ca/south/local-ne ... ll-3997365
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jibler, please don't attribute your gibberish to me. :-$
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Iguru wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:02 pm
rijaca wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:04 pm ethanol production plants nearby. Really? :-k
Really.
The other job done at the ethanol plant can create a more pungent aroma. The ethanol plant also burns flax, straw and Specified Risk Materials (SRM) from the prairie slaughter industry to create a more sustainable source of thermal energy for their facility. This end of the business is undertaken by NorAmera Technologies Inc., which is also owned by W.I.T.
Lee de Vries, a special care aide at Tatagwa View, said the smell of burning animal products was very easy to identify.

"One day we opened up a window and a nurse I was working with said that smells like a burning animal carcass. She grew up on a farm and that is a smell that you don't forget," de Vries remembered.

That's my SWAG as to what the smell is.
Here is a link to where I got this information.
https://www.sasktoday.ca/south/local-ne ... ll-3997365
The nearest ethanol plant to the Herman Gulch TH is at least 60 miles away. Closer to the feed material (primarily corn).
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Maybe ethanol plants aren't the only ones burning SRM from the slaughter industry (to create a cheap source of sustainable thermal energy). :-k

SRM incinerators nearby?
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rijaca wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:04 pm Meth lab, doubtful (sounds like QAnon conspiracy).
The dingleberry that suggested that wouldn’t know a meth lab if it was in his unused RV out in his driveway. He’s no Walter White, except in his own mind.

But he does traffic in q-s**t so there’s that.
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When I find myself hiking Herrman
A certain odor comes to me
Wisping curds of limburger
Rotten cheese

And in my hour of darkness
It's right there in front of me
Wisping curds of limburger
Rotten cheese

Rotten cheese, Rotten cheese
Rotten cheese oh Rotten cheese
There will be a muenster
Rotten cheese
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Iguru wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:39 pm

SRM incinerators nearby?
https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/trailhea ... 1207301331

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Iguru wrote: Sun Oct 10, 2021 9:09 pm Ethanol production is also suspect. Ethanol production plant nearby?
Where I'm from, we call that moonshine!
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highpilgrim wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:47 pm
rijaca wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:04 pm Meth lab, doubtful (sounds like QAnon conspiracy).
The dingleberry that suggested that wouldn’t know a meth lab if it was in his unused RV out in his driveway. He’s no Walter White, except in his own mind.

But he does traffic in q-s**t so there’s that.
Comrade, of course. Another excellent contribution to this forum. And you certainly seem to understand meth labs well. A little side-line of yours in Missery?
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It’s clearly Bigfoot.
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