Oooo that smell. Can’t you smell that smell?
A birdie asks: What is that rancid smell covering Belmont last night and this morning? Some describe it as “rancid wilderbeasts.” Others say “festering carcasses.”
What’s that smell?
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Calling Belmont Yo to the thread!
Yo, here…
That, as I understand it, is known as “The Belmont Funk”. It occurs several times a year, when temperature and wind conditions are just right. Its origins are the Rivianna Waste Authority Facility (or whatever its called), across the river from the Hog Waller. Complaints have been lodged, and apparently “they are working on it”. It was quite a shock to the old factory when first i experienced it. I have never known it to last more than a day though.
coincidence?
I think the smell you are referring to is Charlottesville Media and Our Beloved City of Charlottesville. It’s the crooked crap they are pushing on us all with the new pathetic website. How did a porno company get hired to create a website promoting shops in the city of Charlottesville.
The RWSA is beginning a renovation/upgrade of the sewage treatment facility in June. This will bring them up to “best practices” standards. Groundbreaking is in late May I believe. I heard Tim Kaine would be there wielding a shovel. Hope he also brings a clothespin for his nose.
The Carlton section of the Belmont-Carlton neighborhood gets hit with this all the time, as does the Woolen Mills. One of the main problems is that the honey wagons unload their septage right out in the open by the gates on Franklin St. But it’s been okay to do that all these years, because they located the facility next to a lower income neighborhood, and lower income people don’t matter. Actually, it’s their fault they live there. If the residents don’t like it, they should move to the Dairy Rd or Greenbrier neighborhoods where these things aren’t a problem. Yep, that’s totally feasible.
/glad we’re finally getting somewhere with the RWSA, but frankly still pissed it’s taken us 20+ years.
I wonder if it’s the same as here in Richmond? Why do they keep these treatment facilties right next to the rivers? They run all the waste under the James and every time it floods it overflows into the James because from what i understand, “it was the practice of the day”. They want to regulate farms with their cattle in a stream, when we pump human waste right to it! I notice the smell when I come back to visit C’ville just like Richmond on 95. It really says “welcome back”!
That smell surfaced once during a Ween show at the amphitheatre. As the smell of shit (because come on, that’s what it is) wafted through crowd, Dean Ween asked, “is that raw sewage?” to which Gene Ween replied “I thought that was us.”
One of my top 5 all time poo poo smell moments.