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Utilities staff outline short‑ and long‑term fixes for recurring sewer odors
Summary
County utilities staff told commissioners they are using incremental lime dosing, a deodorizing enzyme and an odor logger while exploring pretreatment at upstream systems, ionization scrubbers and master‑plan force‑main realignments to reduce odors from two long force‑main runs.
County utilities staff briefed the Board of Commissioners on repeated public complaints about sewer odors originating from long force‑main runs feeding master lift stations 83 (MLK/Spring Creek) and 76 (Coastal Highway).
Ned, the utilities presenter, said the two lines create long travel times (combined runs of more than 20 miles of pipeline in the system feeding those stations) that allow wastewater to biologically degrade and produce off‑gassing. He described…
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