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RESPONSE SUMMARY REVISED DRAFT ORDER OF APPROVAL NO. 10052 Comment Period – September 13 – October 28, 2010 Commenter Comment Synopsis Cedar Grove Composting Inc. needs to stop polluting our air. There needs to be a record of what pollutants we are being exposed to and in what quantities. Just because it is air doesn’t mean that it can’t be measured. If a permit is issued, Cedar Grove Composting Inc must be held accountable if conditions are broken. They should be made to operate odor free or be shut down. Frecia Kelly (Written 10/26/2010) I moved to the house I'm in now 25 years ago. I was robustly healthy with no limitations. Now I have developed asthma, and it has really been bad for the last 2 years. I finally had skin tests done to determine what is setting it off. I am highly allergic to mold. I have dealt with the mold in my house, and even run two air purifiers daily. I firmly believe that Cedar Grove Composting is putting a significant amount of mold into the air in the surrounding neighborhoods, including this one. I want proof of what the composting facility is disseminating into the air and I want someone besides Cedar Grove Composting to collect the samples and run the tests. The noise from that facility is also ruining our quiet way of life. I will be waiting to hear from you. Jesse Pishue (Written 10/27/2010) These are my comments in regards to Cedar Grove Compost to be recorded. We have worked incredibly hard to be able to purchase a home for our family which includes myself, my husband, my 6 year old daughter and our dog. We purchased our home in Maple Hills, located in Renton, around 6 months ago. When originally touring the home, we smelled what we thought to be a very large load of fresh beauty bark that had been recently delivered to a neighbor. The smell was incredibly overwhelming. We were not informed of Cedar Grove Compost which apparently backs up to our neighborhood. After we purchased our home, I went to the elementary school (Maple Hills) to register my daughter. The smell was so bad that my daughter pulled her shirt over her nose because the smell was making her sick. I asked the office what that horrible smell was and they informed me that it is Cedar Grove Compost. This was devastating news as I now understood that this was not going away any time soon. On average, it smells atleast 2 times a day for around an hour or two at a time at our home. During the hot summer, I would open my windows to air out my house just to wake up in the middle of the night to close the windows because my entire house would smell so incredibly bad that I could not sleep. During a few
RESPONSE SUMMARY REVISED DRAFT ORDER OF APPROVAL NO. 10052 Comment Period – September 13 – October 28, 2010 Alex Pishue Commenter (Written 10/27/2010) Comment Synopsis attempts at having company over for bonfires, we ended up moving into the house because the smell became so offensive. That is very sad and embarassing for ourselves and our company. When I leave my home early in the morning, the smell is very strong. It seems that the smell is the worst in the evenings and mornings. My husband drops my daughter off in the mornings to the before and after school care at Maple Hills where it is an almost daily occurence that it smells so bad it makes my daughter gag and it is a topic of conversation in the classroom daily. The fact that my daughter breaths this all day in her classroom because the smell gets caught up in the vents is very upsetting to me. My daughters soccer league had a game at the Maple Hills Park on a saturday morning when the smell was particularly bad and it was horrible to watch these small children playing sports and trying to catch their breath with such foul air which no one can seem to figure out if it is toxic or not. I can hear the machines beeping all night and early morning while they move compost. This is a horrible way to live and it is affecting so many people in such a horrible way. The fines are obviously not changing anything in favor of our neighborhoods. If this smell is making adults eyes burn and asthma act up, I don't want to think about what it is doing to all of the children who breath this air on a daily basis. This letter is in regards to Cedar Grove Compost and is to be recorded. I have worked very hard to purchase a home for my family only to find out the the value of our home which we recently purchased is worth even less with the knowledge of the offensive smell from Cedar Grove Compost. The smell that is coming through my house and neighborhood is unbearable. It is a crime that they are able to pollute the air in such a horrible way that it affects the surrounding neighborhoods so badly. I feel that Cedar Grove Compost should either be closed down or be able to run their business indoors as they do in Europe and other responsible, respectful areas. My family is being exposed to unknown toxins in the air. They need to get a handle on this situation before any permits are renewed or allowed. The responsibility should not lie with the families that are being subjected to this pollution. Where are our rights and protection? The children can't sleep in a tent in our yard because during the night the smell is so overwhelming. We are embarassed to have any type of get togethers because that is during the time of day that it smells the worst. The list goes on and on of how this affects our lives in a bad way. Please help us do something about it.
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