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Residents near Big Creek water plant urge county action over repeated toxic odors

2699147 · March 19, 2025
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Multiple Fulton County residents said noxious fumes from the Big Creek Water Reclamation Plant have been waking families at night and keeping children indoors. They asked the board for better mitigation, clearer timelines and more communication from the plant and county project managers.

Residents living near the Big Creek Water Reclamation Plant asked Fulton County commissioners to press plant operators and contractors for faster mitigation after months of recurring, overpowering odors that residents said have made outdoor activity unsafe and interrupted sleep.

June Erickson, who lives near the treatment plant, told commissioners the smell has been “the most horrific” for several weeks and described waking in the middle of the night with doors…

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