"Odor in the City is Not Acceptable"

The City of Carthage (MO) Mayor Jim Woestman, is quoted in today's The Joplin Globe, "Odor in the city is not acceptable. If you can't sit on your front porch and enjoy the outdoors, it's not acceptable. It may not be a violation, but it is not acceptable." The Joplin Globe article states that 143 odor complaints have been filed with the Missouri Department of Natural resources (MDNR)since March 1, 2008 by Carthage residents. A meeting is set for 1:00 pm, today at Carthage's Memorial Hall, between MDNR, the City of Carthage, and industries operating in the Carthage industrial bottoms.

Leanne Tippit-Mosby, Deputy Director of MDNR's Division of Environmental Quality stated that the purpose of today's meeting is "seeing what we can do to try to move forward on fixing any remaining odor problems". The problem is 3 1/2 years old, the year RES went on line. Hummm, I wonder who stinks? How many odor complaints does it take to substantiate that RES isn't fixed and continues to pollute and contaminate our city with "obnoxious, putrid, dead, rotting carcass-intensified, oily burnt flesh odor."