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...river pollution, and in 1982 it took the site off its priority list. But heavy rains from Hurricane Gloria sent 100,000 gal. of oily, smelly chemical wastes rushing back up to the surface of this presumably cleaned-up site and into the Susquehanna. "There was an extremely strong odor that would burn your nostrils," said City Clerk Paul McGarry, who went to investigate after residents began phoning with complaints. "It looked like liquid...
...date site is a problem for the 300 people who live just over the hills in the town of Casmalia. A little more than a year ago, it seems, fumes started drifting down over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire department. We didn't know what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution...
...until we die," Tompkins says. "But the poor people in town, all they have are their homes." Rather, his fear is that waste chemicals might percolate through the ground into his cattle's drinking water. "If that stuff ever gets into the water, we're through." As for the odor, it burns his sinuses and gives him headaches. "If you see a lot of trucks come in," says Tompkins, who lives close to the dump entrance, "you can pretty well bet there'll be a smell...
Golab, 61, died at the FRS plant in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ten minutes after collapsing near a vat of cyanide, which is used to help recover silver from exposed photographic film. Other FRS workers testified that the plant reeked of bitter almonds, cyanide's telltale odor. Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein said death was caused by "acute cyanide toxicity," and that during the autopsy, Golab's chest cavity had smelled so strongly of almonds "that it hurt both the eyes of myself and my assistant." After rendering his verdict, the judge revoked bail for the defendants...
...worst part of this mess is that McLaughlin decided to take no disciplinary measures whatsoever against the Crimson pugilists, thus intensifying the dishonorable odor of the incident...