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Residents and council press for answers after yearlong sanitary odor in Woodhills area

Mentor City Council · September 17, 2025
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Summary

Council discussed persistent sewage-like odors in parts of the Woodhills neighborhood that residents say have lasted about a year despite county utility and state agency involvement; city staff said Lake County utilities are investigating and the city will press for answers and consider offering assistance or outside resources to pinpoint the source.

Council members raised a continuing sanitary-odor problem affecting parts of the Woodhills neighborhood during the Sept. 16 Mentor City Council meeting, saying residents have reported a nausea-inducing sewage smell for nearly a year.

A council member said the issue has been referred to the Lake County utilities department and that state agencies including the Ohio EPA and the Lake Health Department…

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