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Has the air improved or have residents quit complaining? We tried to limit expansion Notice that most posts are fairly long ago. Well, we have our own twitter hashtag for it: #MilpitasStinks. You will need to have location services turned on so they can map exactly where you reported the smell. “They” keep telling us, “The number one thing you can do is call the BAAQMD odor hotline every time you smell it.” So the City put up this webpage with a form that allows you to complain about a bad odor. What exactly’s going on here? And how has it been allowed to sustain for so many years? And a dear colleague tells me “Milstinkas” is out there, in good, solid circulation. In my mind, often, I say the word “Smellpitas.” Sometimes, while complaining, I say it out loud. as its new hauler, replacing longtime collector Republic Services.īy Eric Shapiro, in Opinion on July 23, 2018. In November 2016, after putting off its decision for several months, Milpitas selected Garden City Sanitation Inc. The Milpitas City Council voted to continue litigation against the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for not considering odor complaints in approving a landfill expansion. Milpitas, Calif., Opts to Continue Litigation Over Landfill Expansion Decision
He suggested San Jose should have used the existing ACE rail tracks to send waste to Altamont Landfill (in rural Livermore with no odor complaints) instead of processing waste within urban areas. He called out the poor facilities siting near resident and that San Jose clearly stuck it to Milpitas and Fremont. He spoke out against San Jose’s bad decision and BAAQMD’s inaction. He has gotten a lot of complaints from his constituents. Watch Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty grilled BAAQMD staff. (Kansen Chu is no longer our state assembly member, and I don’t know if Alex Lee or Bob Wieckowski (our State Senator) has taken up the problem.)Ĭity Hall Phone Numbers to Talk to SomeoneīAAQMD discussion of the San Jose/Milpitas odor issues Kansen Chu’s staff will continue working with the air districts and local enforcement agency to see if something else can be done outside of legislation in the meantime. It is very disappointing that other state assemblymen would go against a harmless bill that merely mandates the participation of odor nuisance offenders in a local task force. Not enough votes to get the bill off the Assembly floor. Opposition worked it hard this year and got facilities throughout the state to send letters and call their assembly members. Republic Services and other facilities throughout California lobbied and killed AB 1975 (the odor taskforce bill). Politics and Lawsuitsĭateline June 12, 2018. Learn about the history and current issues surrounding Newby Island Landfill Expansion in the heart of Silicon Valley. Santa Clara / San Jose Wastewater Facility AKA Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP).Ī child explains the Silicon Valley odor problem to us adults in this Milpitas Odor Info video.Zanker Organic Digester Facility (ZWED).Newby Island Landfills & composting operations.
However, Milpitas has no jurisdiction on The Newby Island Landfill OR the San Jose Waste Water Treatment Plant.Īccording to the Milpitas Odor Control Action Plan, potential sources of odors in the Milpitas area include: The City of Milpitas is trying to do several things to help with the odor issue. The number one thing you can do is call the BAAQMD odor hotline ( 1-800-334- ODOR (6367)) every time you smell it, see the reporting page. So why, 60 years later, does Milpitas still stink? Milpitas Smell Map Click to view larger map Back then the explanation was the rotten fruit and fruit peels from the canneries around here. The stink was so bad back in the 50’s and 60’s and…so on.
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No air conditioned cars back in those days! Windows down the whole way…except through Milpitas. Each had a specific hand gesture, and I don’t remember most of them any longer, but for Milpitas we’d make the gesture of rolling up the car windows with window cranks (Remember those?) while really rolling up the windows as fast as we could. We’d drive our parents nuts with the repetitive drone of “doo-do-n-do-doo” over and over again, and then shouting out the name of each city we went through for the whole hour+ drive. When I was a youngster 60 or so years ago, we had a song we would sing as we drove from Oakland to Santa Cruz for a day at the Beach-Boardwalk. It does have a number to report a bad odor: 1-800-334-Odor However, it hasn’t been updated since 2019. Learn about the history and current issues of the stink from Newby Island Landfill. The Silicon Valley odor problem seems incomprehensible.