Reports of "Rotten Egg" Gas Odor

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angelburst29

The Living Force
Friday, March 28, 2014 - In the last 36-48 hours, parts of Northeastern Pennsylvania have simulatiously experienced a heavy concentration of what is labled, "a rotten egg - heavy gas odor" in several adjoining communities. Having experienced it first hand, the odor appeared early Thursday Morning, March 27th after having several days of Spring-like-weather (highs in the upper 40's F) with temperatures suddenly dropping in the teens (for highs) due to a cold front. It lasted a good 24-36 hours and now the smell is gone.

The area's around Springfield, Massachusetts experienced something similar on Tuesday, March 25th.

_http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/odor_of_natural_gas_sends_spri_1.html

SPRINGFIELD – The reported odor of natural gas prompted firefighters and Columbia Gas personnel to respond to three different locations, including Mercy Medical Center, early Tuesday.

“We had three different trucks out with meters checking things out,” Dennis Leger, aide to Commissioner Joseph Conant, said, adding that natural gas was not detected in all three locations and there were no evacuations.

Firefighters and Columbia personnel were summoned to Mercy shortly after 5 a.m. after somebody reported the odor of natural gas outside the facility. A short time later they were summoned to State and Main streets and Taylor and Main streets, Leger said.


_http://wnep.com/2014/03/27/pungent-smell-wafting-through-our-area/

Pa. - For at least 24 hours people have been noticing an unusual odor popping up in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties and beyond.

From Luzerne to Lackawanna to Wyoming and Schuylkill Counties, there is a mystery in the air and it doesn’t smell too good.

For about the past 24 hours a strange stench has been popping up and just about nobody knows exactly what to make of it.

Natural, chemical, animal? A mixture of everything.

DEP spokesperson Colleen Connelly says the situation is unusual.

“Nothing we have ever seen like this before, so it is kind of baffling. It really is,” Connelly said.

The agency is checking sewage plants and landfills, but so far nothing definite has been found that could account for the widespread stink.
 
It could be natural gas released from the Earth 'opening' up perhaps. Sulphur smells very much like rotten eggs. It could of course be something completely different =)
 
Absolutely no follow-up story on the incident of a heavy, rotten egg concentrated smell in several Counties in our area, nor further reports from Massachusetts? Not surprising but this situation covered a wide section of the State of Pa. - in the same given time frame of 24 to 36 hours.

It's possible that the circumstances may include out-gassing from fault lines or cracks in the mantel from Massachusetts to Pa. due to weather conditions that have produced "deep freezes" and then sudden warm ups into the 30-40*F range with contraction and expansion going on. We had experienced a sudden warm up, just prior to the rotten egg smell. On the heels of the smell dissipating, We got a cold front that produced a drop in temperature and two days of steady rain, heavy at times. As of now, Monday morning, the temperatures have dropped to the teens with gusts of periodic wind, sleet and freezing rain and some snow accumulation. Upper 40's F are forecast for tommorrow afternoon with an eventual warm up in the 50's by Friday. So weather may be playing a factor in out-gassing? There's also the thought, a leak or a scheduled release from a Nuclear Planet may be a factor and traveling down wind and close to the surface due to air currents? Plus, there's "fracking" gas well's to consider? In short, there's so much going on "environmentally" it's hard to narrow down a single cause or if it's "an accumulation of all the above"?

Checking out other report's of "rotten smell" for the month of February and March:

* Ontario, Canada Saturday, February 15, 2014
_http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/2014/02/14/rotten-egg-smell-coming-from-old-gas-well-on-orchard-line

After receiving calls about a 'rotten egg' smell in the Port Burwell and Vienna areas, the Municipality of Bayham discovered the source to be an abandoned gas well emitting sulphur water that contains hydrogen sulfide gas.

"On Monday we were fielding calls for a rotten egg smell," said Municipality of Bayham Fire Chief Randy White. "People originally thought it was their sewer system – the calls came in to our wastewater department. They found it wasn't coming from the sewer system. Next they thought it was a natural gas leak, and eventually it got around to MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) and MOE (Ministry of Environment). Wednesday they sent out investigators and tracked it down to this very old, old gas well, abandoned nearly 100 years ago.

"There's actually tens of thousands of those wells across Ontario, a number of them which are in this area, and quite a number which they have no idea where they are."

Hydrogen sulfide is a gas which is heavier than air and in sufficient concentrations and in close proximity to the source can be potentially dangerous and deadly. However, it was noted on the municipality website (www.bayham.on.ca) there is no immediate danger to the public.

* York, Nebraska Monday, March 31st, 2014
_http://www.yorknewstimes.com/news/rotten-egg-smell-to-be-tackled/article_ac0837ae-2cae-11e3-85cd-001a4bcf887a.html

YORK – Ever since water started flowing into the city’s system from the new wellfield, there’s been complaints about a “rotten egg” smell in the water.

While the water is fit for human consumption, the smell is quite unpleasant.

As explained earlier by city officials, the “rotten egg smell is caused by naturally-occurring Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria (SRBs) feeding on the naturally-occurring sulfate that is in the water. This process creates a gas that evaporates quickly from the water, producing the smell.”

* MERIDEN, Connecticut Friday March 21, 2014
_http://www.wfsb.com/story/24788623/deep-mystery-smell-in-meriden-not-hazardous

A mystery smell had crews scouring the city of Meriden Friday afternoon to determine the cause of it, and state officials said they believe the weather is making it worse.

Several people reported a natural gas or rotten egg-like scent wafting throughout the downtown area around 7 a.m.

Firefighters were quick to say the smell was not gas. A representative from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said their crews investigated one of the worst affected areas, which was on Gracey Avenue.

DEEP officials said the smell was not hazardous, but there is "no apparent source" of the odor.

* La Crosse, Wisconsin Friday March 28, 2014
_http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/rotten-egg-smell-in-la-crosse-was-harmless-gas-additive/article_52fa7fb2-c1f4-507a-9857-76a8f60c00bf.html

A rotten egg smell that blanketed parts of La Crosse this morning was a harmless spill of the additive used to give natural gas a detectable odor.

Residents started calling fire dispatchers about 7:45 a.m. about the rotten egg-like smell, traced to a mercaptan additive spill at the Kwik Trip fueling center near Gillette Street, said Fire Division Chief Jeff Murphy.

Calls came in from the North Side around Gillette and the South Side.

“The mercaptan is added to natural gas to give it its smell” as a safety factor because it doesn’t have an odor itself, Murphy said. “It’s not hazardous, because it’s there for us to smell.”

Such incidents happen occasionally, he said.

The odor occurred after a Kwik Trip worker spilled a small amount of the mercaptan, said company spokesman John McHugh.

"That stuff is so odiferous that the smell wafts everywhere," McHugh said. "A little bit is so strong, but that's the purpose of it."

At about 9 a.m., a gas line rupture was reported in the 700 block of St. Paul Street resulting from a construction crew's digging, but Xcel Energy workers repaired it quickly, Murphy said.


* I've noticed the reports start in the early morning hours, which might suggest Hydrogen Sulfide (heavier than air) accumulating near the surface of the ground in heavy concentrations and generally cover a wide area? Even if a report mentions Hydrogen Sulfide, it's dismissed as harmless or some other phantom cause is parroted to explain away the problem. Like we're dealing with an invisible fog of some kind, that smells bad but the wind will blow it away .... instead of a serious poison gas.
 
Hydrogen sulfide does smell like rotten eggs at low concentrations. My bet is its due to fracking and the media will unfortunately keep going dark on the situation for obvious reasons.
 
Rotten egg smells also accompany all sorts of paranormal encounters. If there isn't a 'natural' explanation, maybe this could be a symptom of more 'thinning of the veil'?
 
Approaching Infinity said:
Rotten egg smells also accompany all sorts of paranormal encounters. If there isn't a 'natural' explanation, maybe this could be a symptom of more 'thinning of the veil'?
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That's true, I forgot about that! That makes it pretty creepy!
 
I think the Cs said that the smell was a product of the 'chemical process" of transiting between densities, maybe specifically for transiting of organic matter/life forms between densities. Maybe we need to keep an eye out for downtown 'Bigfoot' sightings! :umm: :shock:
 
Yeah, Bigfoots and who knows what else might pop out, if the veil is indeed thinning.
 
I'm not sure if this Report is connected to the Rotten Egg smell experienced on March 27-28, over a wide area of four Counties or if it's an isolated incident, or worse yet, using this situation - as an explanation to calm down inquirers?

Source of Stink in Wyoming County investigated
_http://wnep.com/2014/04/09/source-of-stink-in-wyoming-county-investigated/

MONROE TOWNSHIP — State DEP officials and Wyoming County EMA officials are investigating an incident at a natural gas dehydration station.

Officials say a substance used to give natural gas its odor was somehow released from one of the storage buildings after 10 p.m. Monday at the station south of Tunkhannock. The wind then picked it up and the smell spread.

After doing air tests, DEP says the substance is not harmful to the public.

They are investigating how the substance got out of the storage facility in Wyoming County.

(Not much of a Report but there is 3 comments listed.)

* My property ajoins the dehydration plant. This is the second day in a row there was an incident and the seventh incident since the plants’ inception. When will this be fully investigated and concerned neighbors be given an explanation?

* Why didn’t the sirens go off alerting nearby residents of danger?

* If it was ethyl mercaptan, it’s not exactly true that there’s no harm to the public. It comes with an MSDS sheet for workers that says short term exposure may cause, “irritation, nausea, difficulty, breathing, headache, symptoms of drunkenness, bluish skin color, convulsions, coma” (www.megs.ca/MSDS/Pdf/Ethyl_Mercaptan.PDF)


The incident that happened at the end of March affected a four County (wide) area - from Luzerne to Lackawanna to Wyoming and Schuylkill Counties with a heavy penetrating scent that lingers for up to 36 hours, in some spots. This Report might be an attempt to explain the situation - away. Vital information is lacking, so I guess, you're suppose to use your imagination to fill in the gaps?
 
The first part of this post offers a bit of a mundane explanation, the second part is a bit more metaphorical.

Isn't Pennsylvania home of multiple iron mines? Here in WI we have iron in our well water, which at times (Spring thaw-heating up, heavy rains) provides perfect conditions for sulfur bacteria (from resumed decomposition) to thrive and release the "rotten egg smell" in our water. One way we can tell, aside from the smell, is that our house water filters, when changed will be black and greasy, rather than rust colored. So maybe the rotten egg smell could be a seasonal occurrence made more "unprecedented" when combined with an out-gassing event, driving the hydrogen sulfide gas upward.

Another thought was that these reports of smelly gas is a symptom, one of many, that the Earth is really sick and under stress from irreverence and abuse; fever (volcanoes/global warming), chills(polar vortexes/global cooling), shivering (earthquakes), flatulence (out-gassing), boils(Yellowstone), parasitic infestation (human activity), allergies and chemical sensitivities (pollution), etc ad nauseum...
Just as the human body experiences symptoms of illnesses in order to purge the pathogens, allergens and toxic chemicals, Earth may just be "mirroring the human experiential cycle" of cleansing.

As the C's say: "The Earth benefits from periodic cleansing."
Anyone who has had the flu knows that can be a stinky, smelly process...to say the least.
 
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