Bleach-like odor linked to nearby environmental facility, Winston Salem NC
Other Non-Crime EventA bleach-like odor was reported near Diggs Boulevard. Investigation found that an environmental management company nearby started offloading a tanker with a product causing the smell. The odor entered the stormwater system but was determined to be non-toxic and similar to substances used in the city's treatment plant.
Audio|Source: Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
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I copy. Do you know if they were doing any work?
00:05
I said being dispatched another city department in the area.
00:16
No, there's no work going on in the area.
00:20
We do have a chemical facility uphill from us over by Salem Seal.
00:25
I don't know if that's related to this or not. It's stormwater, but I don't know the chemistry up there at the bargrave.
00:38
Have you already able to make some type of little?
00:46
Second.
00:51
Copy days, you can't even without getting.
00:54
Safety seven, Johnstein.
00:59
Safety seven, copy unseen.
01:00
Safety seven from command.
01:03
Great command.
01:06
If you would, can you run up to the top of the hill by Salem Steel to that chemical company and see if they're doing anything that would be releasing bleach into the storm water system?
01:18
Copy that. What do I talk about?
01:22
Go ahead.
01:36
Do you tell if that pipe is, in fact a stormwater pipe, I mean,
01:41
or is that like sewer system from now, so is that a clean out?
01:47
I want to say it's a clean out for the sewer system.
01:52
I don't see anything coming out of the stormwater drain.
02:00
You've come up this residential one or the main?
02:09
I'm Victor in this house to the homeowner just to make sure they don't have anything great going on there.
02:23
Control from Diggs Boulevard command.
02:27
Go ahead.
02:29
Can you have someone from utility?
02:36
For your main town?
02:39
You tell me?
02:41
No, see you tell me.
02:45
I guess you don't want to come here.
02:52
Go ahead.
02:55
I'm actually at the environmental management company upstream from you all and they actually confirm they do have that they did start offloading a tanker and the product that they're treating it is characteristic of that bleak smell so more than likely this is the cause of the issue but they advise that it's non-toxic
03:20
Obviously, we have as Matt, report up to you.
03:26
Well,
03:27
we should be good to cut everybody loose because whatever they treat it with is basically the same thing that the city uses at the treatment plant. So they, so since it's so close to the facility it hadn't had a chance to dissipate.
03:41
So that's why it's so strong where it is right now.
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Location mentioned:
Diggs Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27107
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