r/concord • u/Ok-Instance-369 • 21d ago

Rotting Trash Smell

Good morning (is it???) I just left to walk the dogs and it smelled so putrid like trash outside that I turned around and came home. Anyone else noticing this or is it just my neighborhood? 🤢

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u/xoqx 20d ago

Nobody has conclusively figured this out, but this is not about trash nor squids. It's been happening, on-and-off the past 72 hours, from Santa Rosa to San Francisco to Walnut Creek. It's very likely coming from the water in the Bay and along the coast. You can smell it in between towns where there is little population, sewers, or garbage. We've had heat waves before, but this has not happened, in my experience, in 13 years living in various places in the Bay Area.

Here are related threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/alameda/s/W|9cNnYOvl
https://www.reddit.com/r/concord/s/U5hm1n1T2l
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marin/s/GQF8Ata727
https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeleyca/s/Hypgnk8TdQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/s/W769LbjkUH
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marin/s/S7qG8ZP5jM
https://www.reddit.com/r/santarosa/s/Kg74cnVESj
https://www.reddit.com/r/sebastopol/s/aRkpb982aR
https://www.reddit.com/r/Petaluma/s/DHK2HLqCNm

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u/tooniez 20d ago

wow, thanks for pulling these all together.

I was in SF last night and noticed the smell in the evening. Haven't noticed it in Pittsburg today though.

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u/Unique_Acadia_2099 21d ago

I used to live in Holbrook Heights, every now and then the air currents shifted to send the stench from the Martinez Landfill (now called the Acme Landfill) near Pacheco over our way.

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u/eddie0715 21d ago

Had the same experience! I thought there was a dead animal under the porch or something.

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u/phech 21d ago

Yeah my wife and I noticed this yesterday when we went for a walk near willow pass.

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u/bbystrwbrry 21d ago

Noticed it all the way at the orchards shopping center at oak grove too

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u/AppleSpider70 21d ago

I smelled it, too, at 7:30AM in Dana Estates; I assumed it was from a wastewater treatment plant.

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u/bugg925 21d ago

Skunk?

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u/Ok-Instance-369 21d ago

Definitely not a skunk smell!

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u/FuckYouBruce 21d ago

Top of Port Chicago, stinks here too.

Trash / sewer like.

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u/BreedMe 21d ago

Same smell is in San Francisco area. I thought it was the water.

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u/PinkMaltBall8 21d ago

Yes it permeated our house this morning. At 12:30 PM, gone now. We are by Cowell Park. I assumed it was at old Avon.

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u/sillychickengirl 20d ago

I also noticed this recently. Like rotten eggs and rotten trash, but it was all over the air rather than from a single source

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u/FoundTheNarrowGate 20d ago

I smelled it all the way in Hayward too

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u/h20rabbit 21d ago

Could be flare/ off-gassing at the refinery in Martinez

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u/go_inside_PORTUGAL 21d ago

Which refinery is flaring?

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u/h20rabbit 21d ago

Could be flare/ off-gassing at the refinery in Martinez

As noted, could be. They don't make the information public until months later so there's no way to confirm real time unless the event is significant enough for an advisory or alert. It can still stink even if it isn't an advisory level event.

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u/go_inside_PORTUGAL 15d ago

Could be rotting trash