Why does greeley smell bad

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If Collins catches a cold, Cavendish is the one who has to investigate a smell. Collins and Cavendish would know. In , odor complaints in Greeley hit a record low of three complaints, and only one was confirmed.

Last year, the city received 30 complaints and confirmed nine. So far this year, the city has received 14 complaints and confirmed eight. In the past five years, saw the highest number of calls at Of those phone calls, six were confirmed. In the first year, the city received complaints.

So that has not been a reality for decades, and yet the world has a long collective memory. Still, when complaints come into the odor hotline, the city investigates smells.

In Greeley, the complaint process works like this: someone calls the odor hotline, Collins or Cavendish respond to the scene to find the source of the odor. They use the Nasal Ranger once to determine if the odor violated smell standards and 15 minutes later, they use the Ranger again. You probably get the drift. For the smell to pack its bags and travel a couple dozen miles to Fort Collins, the wind has to be just right.

Unfortunately, that happens a lot. A light breeze, about 10 mph, often meanders from the southeast into Fort Collins and Windsor from about 9 a. Warm air gets trapped in the mountains and sinks as it cools during the evening hours, sliding back down the mountains, rippling across the Poudre Valley again and blowing through Fort Collins and Windsor once more. Imagine the scent of wet pavement after a rain storm.