The title of the piece below should be called "Reducing the
Pittsburgh stink". Though the Mon Valley is a major source for the nasty rotten egg smell, the odor certainly doesn't stay down there.
Call it for what it is and get the point across. Quit blaming the Mon Valley. It's part of the region. It doesn't matter where the pollution and odors come from... the air is foul
in Pittsburgh from Hazelwood to Highland Park on many a morning.
I definitely do not miss waking up to that sulfury-sweet stink in spring, summer, and fall when we'd keep the windows open overnight. And how the house would subsequently retain a hint of that foul odor inside until afternoon.
Reducing the Mon Valley "stink"
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/env...s/201708250214
The Pittsburgh region too often still has an oily, sulfuric, industrial “stink,” and tougher regulation is needed to reign in the unhealthy malodors, said Mark Dixon, who testified at an Allegheny County Health Department hearing last week on permit changes at coke and steel making facilities in the Mon Valley.
Mr. Dixon, a Squirrel Hill resident and independent environmental filmmaker, said the proposed permit adjustments at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, its Irvin Works in West Mifflin and its Edgar Thomson Works and Braddock Recovery Inc. in Braddock don’t go far enough, fast enough.
Mr. Dixon said the malodorous days are linked closely to the region’s numerous weather inversions, which trap industrial emissions in low-lying areas along the region’s rivers, and he called out the steelmaker and the health department for not doing more to prevent the smelly, unhealthy industrial pollution.
He was particularly critical of the steelmaker’s plans to construct a 230-foot tall emissions stack at the Edgar Thomson Works, which he said was too short to break through the inversions — commonly at an altitude of 300 feet — and disperse sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds.
“We can no longer tolerate half-measures,” Mr. Dixon said.
“It’s well past time to bring Pittsburgh into the 21st century. We can and must use innovative industrial approaches to eliminate the stench in this great city once and for all.”
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