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Goleta Stench

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 CANDLE LADY helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 04:43 PM

I smelled rotten eggs when I drove past on my scooter. I think it is the sewer pipes and/or bird refuge. Eeeeeeewwwwww...

 

 COMMENT 335576 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 01:31 PM

Salt Marsh

 

 COMMENT 335565 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 12:59 PM

@335085P

Raytheon is going to be out next week taking samples of that parking lot to prove that whatever they pumped there is gone so they can finally get off the hook for it.

 

 COMMENT 335514 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 10:10 AM

it's worse today!! we can even smell it in our building...............

 

 COMMENT 335488 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 08:49 AM

058 - Thanks for the historical info. When I move I will keep this in mind. I keep on learning from Edhatters!

 

 COMMENT 335456 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-25 07:31 AM

261- That and the petroliferous odors of the Monterey Formation. Home sweet home!

 

 COMMENT 335261 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 02:11 PM

I love it. That and dead kelp / rotting sealion + ocean salt.

Whenever i leave town on business or vacation, the moment i step off the plane I smell the Goleta Slough and usually a rotting carcass - its literally a taste of heaven.

Im being 100% honest with this statement, its one of my most calming scents - I'll be truly sad should I ever relocate to a place away from the central coast shore. Love it.

 

 COMMENT 335228 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 01:26 PM

It's Goleta - ghetto fabulous in all it's glory - it's just part of the charm that keeps me living here.

 

 COMMENT 335190 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 12:28 PM

Sometimes there's and awful stench that whaffs from the avocado orchard on Glen Annie x Cathedral Oaks. They get truck loads of raw mulch (or maybe it's manure) and just let it "cure" on their property. You can smell it all the way to the shopping center. Not sure if that's the problem today, but I know it has been in the past.

 

 COMMENT 335159 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 11:41 AM

The desal plant has not operated since the 1990s and it's on Yanonali Street, not up the coast.

 

 COMMENT 335146P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 11:20 AM

@119, I live near Winchester Canyon. It may be the watering of some of the ag fields just west of the canyon. They use reclaimed water.

 

 COMMENT 335144 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 11:17 AM

It's not the beach. I jumped in the ocean first thing this morning and the smell was coming from over by LaGoleta, one of the houses up there. Those people smell.

 

 COMMENT 335144 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 10:46 AM

Sulphur!!!!!!!!!!

Marshland!!!!!

Goleta Slough!!!

Somebody move the airport! And really, Deckers? It's probably Deckers' construction.

 

 COMMENT 335119 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 10:44 AM

I live out in Winchester Canyon and we smell that about once a month in the evening. It's TERRIBLE!

One neighbor said it was a desalinization plant up the coast.

 

 COMMENT 335106 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 10:26 AM

Oh know I got deleted!! please review my comment under the deleted comments section...thanks!

 

 COMMENT 335085P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 10:10 AM

I remember how hard Raytheon tried to keep the old Building 5 level, at the end of Robin Hill. No matter what was pumped under that building it just kept sinking. Finally it became a parking lot.

 

 ROGER DODGER helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 10:07 AM

Sorry it's my colone.

 

 COMMENT 335067P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:58 AM

Although not an R supporter - I "negative"d that comment because I dislike them whether they are for/against either side.

 

 COMMENT 335144 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:48 AM

Sulphur. The airport and all the Storke housing is built on a salt marsh, that's why they have so many issues with mold in their houses. At one time, when the waters were high, you used to be able to ride your small boat (aka goleta) from Goleta beach to the Ellwood shores via the slough. I think it was in the 1920s that the army came in and took the island that used to exist in the goleta slough and shoveled it into the marshland for a landing strip. Lotsa Chumash bones.

 

 COMMENT 335053P helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:40 AM

Whatever you do DON'T light a match.....

 

 COMMENT 335043 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:31 AM

Are you sure it was sulphur not sewer gas you smelled? We do live over a seismically active area rich in hydrocarbons and sulphur gases are common. The problem with hydrogen sulfide is that it's not harmful when you can smell it but at higher concentrations you can't and that's when it's deadly. Seriously hydrogen sulfide, a byproduct of oil exploration and production, is a major concern here.... ever notice the sirens along the Gaviota coast?

On the other hand sewer gas also smells like hydrogen sulfide, you know the smell of rotten eggs.

 

 COMMENT 335159 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:31 AM

That's the earthquake early warning system. Duck and cover.

 

 COMMENT 335041 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:30 AM

The smell from the bird refuge is migrating north.

 

 COMMENT 335042 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:30 AM

170 Los Carneros Wy , Goleta *** Gas Leak Outside *** 34433204 *** - 119853499

Not sure if it is related. I can smell it just north of the deckers construction site inside our building.

 

 COMMENT 335037 helpful negative off topic

2012-10-24 09:25 AM

I believe it's coming from the ocean.

 

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