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Published October 03, 2008 04:12 pm - CARTHAGE, Mo. — Carthage residents soon will be asked once again to weigh in on odor problems from the city’s industrial bottoms. Survey to quiz Carthage residents on odors from industrial bottoms w/ Carthage odor survey By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com CARTHAGE, Mo. — Carthage residents soon will be asked once again to weigh in on odor problems from the city’s industrial bottoms. In connection with the town’s 4-year-old odor issue, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources now plans to ask residents who have been bothered by odors to complete a survey in yet another effort to pinpoint the source and severity of the problem. Local responses, along with results of odor testing by DNR workers, will be considered by members of the Missouri Air Conservation Commission who are looking at the possibility of changing state odor rules. “We’ve sent the commission a copy of the survey, and they’ll be getting a report on the results,” said Leanne Tippett Mosby, of DNR’s division of environmental quality. The survey is an outgrowth of a meeting staged in August in Carthage among DNR and city officials and representatives of businesses in the industrial bottoms in the north-central part of Carthage. It raises questions on where, when, and how often a resident has been bothered by odor problems, the type of odor, and its impact on the resident’s qualify of life. The surveys will be distributed over the next month in bills mailed by Carthage Water and Electric Co. and will be available at Carthage City Hall, the Carthage Public Library and other locations, according to Mayor Jim Woestman. “We hope people will fill them out and send them in,” Woestman said. “The more people get pro-active, the more we’ll be able to get done.” The idea for the survey was advanced at the end of the Carthage meeting that included representatives of Renewable Environmental Solutions, the biofuels producer most often cited in complaints to the DNR as the source of the city’s odor problems. RES officials say the plant is not responsible for recent complaints, and that the company addressed its odor problems with equipment installed after a public nuisance lawsuit filed by the city and the Missouri attorney general’s office. Woestman said there were odor problems earlier in the week, though he said he did not think they were bad enough to trigger a DNR violation. “It wasn’t a knee-buckler, but it definitely made you lose your appetite,” he said. He said that the state regulation is the obstacle for the issue in Carthage, in that the odors are strong enough to significantly affect residents’ quality of life, but not strong enough to trigger a state violation and thus bring about state enforcement. “That’s the problem; they’re going to have to address the odor threshold,” he said of the state regulations. 
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