I am sick and tired of the harbour stench. I live and work DT and the entirety of my day is permeated by an everpresent fart stench like I’ve got my nose shoved in morning after, pre-beer shit ass crack. It’s. Fucking. Disgusting. I throw up a little in my mouth each day as I walk to work. I fall asleep with the “odour” tickling my tonsils. Sort it out, Harbour Solutions. This is not okay.
—K-ron
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2009.
there were millions of litres of sewage dumped in the harbour for decades up until this plant was built (like what……2 years ago) soooo just because the harbour has been “clean” for a year and now its back to what it was people have to complain….SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!! Get over it, obviously no amount of bitching is going to fix it so give it up already. Move out of your apartment and into some place not near the harbour and find a new topic to bitch about already.
Actually, the smell is worse than it was in the past, at least in places, because the sewage that used to flow through a few dozen outfalls is now concentrated at just eight. Worse still, the bulk of it comes through just two– the one at the casino, and the one at Maritime Museum. The smell is far, far worse than it ever was in the past (with the possible exception of the Dufus street outfall).
I’ll have the definitive story on the sewer plant failure in this Thursday’s paper.
I just fart more in my cubical…seems to cover up the sewage smell.
Unintended Bonus Result: Nobody comes over to bother me about the latest “Cute Kitten” email pic the morons are sending around and the annoying idiot of the office stopped by only once this week!
I have noticed, also, that the smoke (so probably the sulphur emissions, as well) of the oil refinery in Dartmouth seem to favour the direction of Halifax, especially the southend. This maybe contributing to the “fart” stench.
Anyone else notice how just after Natal Day/Tall ships the harbour smelled worse?
DER, at least we know now what wrong with you.
You shut up, Frenchie. This harbour sewage thing is: A) Worse than in the past AND B) Unacceptable. Period. There SHOULD be outcry. The citizens of this city SHOULD complain and complain loudly, frequently and persistantly. The douchbags responsible for this shitty situation should be taken to task over this.
We as taxpayers and citizens of this have spent far too much money on this to be told to keep quite and suck it up. The harbour in Mumbia is probably cleaner than ours and that is a huge fuckin disgrace.
..Excuse the typos, should be ….citizens of this CITY…. and QUIET not quite….
I’ve lived here most of my life and yeah it smells once in a while but I think these days it’s more psychosomatic (sp). One person starts and everyone starts agreeing.
This of course does not let Petey et al get away from their incompetence. And yet people keep voting these idiots in. Then we have the gall to complain about the Yanks giving Doubla a second term. How many is this for Kelly now?
No, it’s definitely worse. Noticeably, screamingly worse than beforehand. It doesn’t stink all the time, but when it kicks up, it’s way stinkier than it was.
It’s pretty bad when I have to run to my car, slam the doors shut, and turn on the a/c with internal air (no outside air) just to drive away from Downtown’s Stink. Forget it Halifax, I am not going down there anymore and neither is my money!
YAY! We’re back in the Globe today with the national announcement that the screens are coming off and there will be tampons, condoms, TP and anything else flushed back in the harbour just in time for the weekend!
Horray! Here, in the year 2009, we have managed to achieve a sewage treatment strategy on par with the cutting edge advances made by such species as cattle; i.e. shit directly into the stream….
i know!
as soon as the bus hits DT its liek nasty and plus the heat ewwww
the harbour smell IS definitely WORSE than it was in the past. even my friends from out of town commented on it when i brought them down there last weekend. after the first few rancid whifs of the fecal nastiness, we got the hell out of there and headed away from the waterfront.
anyone who thinks the stench is just ‘psychosomatic’ must be full of shit themselves, hence, the eau de harbour toilette is probably masked by their own ‘fragrant’ aroma.
all this smelly talk ………im going poopies
brown to the front
@Happy pampers…I like to call that a “Department of Fisheries and Oceans Delivery” or just DFO Delivery. 🙂
Don’t worry, Concert Pete has said his Due Dilligence is on the case. We can rest easy, now that he has solved everything.