“You can’t sit outside and enjoy a nice evening with a fire roasting marshmallows because of the odors there,” one unnamed Bel Aire Lakes resident said in the lawsuit.
South Jersey retirement community residents want an Atlantic County landfill closed over persistent odor issues
Over the past 10 years, the landfill’s gases have frequently produced strong odors of rotten eggs and feces in the retirement community, often at night, “when the landfill disposes of its putrescible waste,” the lawsuit alleges. “You can’t sit outside and enjoy a nice evening with a fire roasting marshmallows because of the odors there,” one unnamed resident said in the lawsuit. “You just can’t. It permeates inside the home, and the smell lingers and lingers, and long after the odor is gone, eventually, if you’re lucky, it will clear out.”
The emissions problem has gone on so long, the lawsuit alleges, that many residents are unable to sell their homes and move away because “there is a stigma associated with” the Bel Aire Lakes community.
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