Re: smell at 50 and 606
Posted by:
Concerned_Parent
()
Date: April 24, 2011 10:11AM
Making_stuff Wrote:
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> I'll throw in a pretty good bet at what you're
> smelling.
>
> 1) There's a landfill on the Dulles Airport
> property just around the lower left corner - right
> near where that bigass quarry/mine is on the same
> property. THAT thing smells horrible and, given
> the right wind coming in down over the mountains,
> it can blow that stench as far east/northeast as
> Herndon, Dulles Town Center, etc.
>
> 2) This is seasonal: Around late February through
> late April, Dulles airport itself will stench of
> de-icer. The deicer fluid is usually made up of
> some variety of glycol and it stinks to high
> heaven. Even though they do a pretty good job of
> cleaning up the mess after the snow melts, some of
> that stuff occasionally gets left in vats and, if
> the vats are left open, it smells HORRIBLE and can
> fill up the area around Dulles with a really
> disgusting B.O. smelling funk.
ew and in the summer time it stinks to high heaven!