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Work site may be root of olfactory stench
Foul smell around Third Fork Creek
Note: Wisdom Pharaoh is a Generation Change intern.
Where it flows through Burton
Park, there are times when Third
Fork Creek stinks.
Really stinks.
"Horrible," said Wisdom Pharaoh, who lives in a McDougald Terrace apartment nearby.
Others in the neighborhood describe it as "Dirty, nasty"; "rotten cabbage"; "acetic acid"; "strange odors and burning eyes." No one knows where it comes from, but the smell goes into nearby Burton School, and as far away as Briggs Avenue and Fayetteville Street.
"Smells like death," Pharaoh said. "Police have been called to see if there were any dead bodies in the creek."
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The CAN project is coming along at the same time residents in other parts of Durham are raising alarms about pollution in other streams feeding Jordan and Falls Lake.
"This is the time," said Pharaoh, who initiated the CAN project. "I am exuberant right now."
Complete story at: http://www.thedurhamnews.com/around_town/story/142957.html
