I am intrigued by this article by Aiden Taylor (What the Smell?, MyCity Logan, October 26).
I live in Bethania and we have had this “bad smell” problem for maybe 10-15 years.
At that time I reported it to Logan Council and they sent people to try to establish the cause – sometimes they couldn’t smell it at all (must be smokers).
It was suggested I even walk the neighbourhood sniffing for drug factories in homes!
If they look back in their records they will indeed see complaints about this, but I gave up pursuing the problem as I wasn’t making any headway.
The onset of the smell is predictable almost to the day. Mid-October. It starts just on dusk and last strongly for about half an hour, then fades.
When at its strongest, the smell fills the house, and I have to close the windows it’s so acrid. We have also debated as a family what it smells like – sewage, fertiliser, chemicals, rotting vegetation….
As the evenings get lighter is starts a little later every day, but always around 6.15pm-6.45 pm. After a few weeks it subsides and I don’t notice it any more until the next October.
There was a letter in the Albert and Logan News all those years ago from a lady in Eden’s Landing who had the same complaint. I remember calling her about it.
Some council people eventually told us what they thought it was but I don’t even remember their explanation, and I wasn’t terribly convinced at the time.
Margaret Bouwmeester,
Bethania.
