Year later, complaints continue over pungent smell in Brunswick

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Documents amusement much than 100 complaints made astir smell

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A unusual odor has immoderate radical successful Brunswick concerned.

Documents amusement the complaints began successful December 2020 and person continued. They triggered a authorities probe into the origin of the smell.

Claudia Franzosi was excited astir moving into her caller Brunswick location astir a period agone until she opened her windows. She said she noticed the odor astir immediately.

“As soon arsenic I started opening the windows and taking walks it was beauteous evident,” Franzosi said.

She called the Glynn Environmental Coalition. Rachael Thompson is the enforcement manager there.

She said Franzosi is 1 much than 100 radical who person called successful complaints of the weird, pungent smell.

“People successful their homes, not being capable to respire and their homes getting inundated with this chemic odor smell,” Thompson said.

Thompson is tracking the complaints.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division and Air Protection of Environmental Protection Department successful Atlanta are among aggregate agencies investigating.

“We are going to support the probe going arsenic agelong arsenic we proceed to get complaints. We instrumentality each ailment seriously,” said Brett Berry, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Georgia’s Air Protection Branch looked astatine information to fig retired wherever the odor is coming from.

Berry said the probe determined “that country was wrong a 1 mile buffer of Brunswick Cellulose and Academy Creek the discarded h2o attraction plant.”

A abstracted autarkic probe from the University of Georgia concluded based connected information and upwind absorption that “over 80 percent of complaints were downwind of the Georgia Pacific plant...”

According to Berry, companies that mightiness beryllium contributing to the odor person made corrective actions, including Georgia Pacific’s Brunswick Cellulose facility, which added a chemic to reducer sulfur compounds and installed further aerial monitors, and the Academy Creek wastewater facility, which has enclosed the country wherever sewage comes successful for treatment.

Still, Berry says, complaints astir the odor continue. He says arsenic agelong arsenic they continue, the probe volition stay open.

Franzosi said she tin not get retired of her declaration for her location and she hopes the odor goes distant soon.