I live next to a Sewage treatment facility, and it smells really bad at night sometimes speically if wind direction helps..Can this air have bad effect on health when inhaled? or is it just a bad annoying smell?
2007-12-21 21:15:07 · 5 answers · asked by sami 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
It's quite hazardous to your health living near a Sewage tx facility center. Even living in a land fill. or land disposal sites.
sanitary landfills, dumps, demotion facilities, land disposal sites, incinerators, transfer stations, and storage.
Sewage and garbage emanate methylene gas which will create havoc to your respiratory system. Our ozone layer is already filled up with a lot of air pollution. Your water supply might get contaminated if it's not already contaminated making it unfit for human consumption. In this case, you might get a lot of GI problems.
I know of a pregnant friend who used to work in a sewage facility as a field supervisor. She had a premature and retarded baby.
Living near existing Sewage Facilities increase the danger of. surfacing effluept and presenting a potential health hazard.
Residence near site for storage, disposal or treatment at a solid waste facility, ..can . cause or contributes to a public nuisance at or near the facility.
Such sewage may contain sludge, solid ; semi-solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial waste water treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility or any other waste having similar physical characteristics.
Solid Waste: means any nonhazardous waste identified as garbage, ash,litter, rubbish, refuse or putrescible material and other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities which are not hazardous wastes. Solid waste does not include hazardous wastes, mining solid waste, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges
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2007-12-21 21:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by rosieC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The toxic vapors from the fumes will have a bad effect on your respiratory system. People who reside in Eastern countries that are in close proximity to rice paddies suffer the same problem.
If you can change your living conditions, make haste, before you are using an inhaler on a regular basis. Smell is the indicator that the treatment plant has odor, nothing to do with your sense of smell (Olfactory)
2007-12-22 05:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by jemima 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The odor of a treatment plant wouldn't be allowed if it were harmful.
What you can do is complain to them about it though as this odor can be extremely unpleasant.
Tell them the odor makes you nauseous, it lowers your property value, you hesitate to have guests over, affecting intimate relations etc...
It amazed me at what the sewer district I worked for would do to satisfy what were deemed as legitimate complaints.
2007-12-22 06:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by Ta Dah! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, it can have serious affects on your health. i recommend moving to a different location. in the meantime, you should buy an air purifier. i bought a winix 5300 HEPA air purifier and it works great.
good luck.
2014-06-21 18:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Happiness_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it cannot affect much, but you can have balance by visiting some clean place also some time in a day.
2007-12-22 05:20:28 · answer #5 · answered by rajan 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋