TECH ENVIRONMENTAL PRESS RELEASES

2007-09-09: Odor Response Action Plans

All facilities will benefit from developing an odor response action plan.  It is important for every solid waste facility to have a plan in place, regardless of whether it has experienced odor complaints or a nuisance determination, because all landfills emit some odor at times.  If a facility waits until the new guidelines require it to develop a plan, it runs the risk of appearing recalcitrant, potentially squandering community goodwill that may have taken decades to build.  Furthermore, facilities that wait until a crisis to develop an odor response plan may undertake reactionary measures that may not represent the best long-term odor minimization approach.

 A well-designed and executed odor response action plan, developed before a time of crisis, acknowledges that all landfill facilities have a baseline of odor. As long as the baseline does not exceed nuisance levels, an odor problem will not arise.  The most successful odor response action plans independently detect increases in on-site odor so that they can be corrected before off-site nuisances ever arise. Tech Environmental has worked with many landfills in the state of Massachusetts and across New England to develop odor response plans, both in times of crisis and swiss top replcia watches as part of a long-term odor management strategy.

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