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Sound Off: Why in warm or hot weather does it always smell like raw sewage between Sixth and Tennessee and Sixth and Kentucky when you’re sitting there at that stoplight? It smells like there’s a broken sewage line in that area, but it’s been going on for years.

Megan Gilliland, the city’s communications manager, provided this answer: The city does have a sewer line that runs between Tennessee and Kentucky on Sixth Street. Crews have checked the line, and it is intact and not in need of repair. Line maintenance crews clean this line once a month. There may be a sewage smell for a half an hour or so around the time that crews have cleaned it.

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overthemoon 7 months, 1 week ago

Are you texting while driving??!!

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RoeDapple 7 months, 1 week ago

You're getting close to downtown. They say you get used to it.

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5thgeneration 7 months, 1 week ago

There's a small pool of stagnant water right behind that brick building near the electrical substation. I'm pretty sure that's where the smell comes from.

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LarryNative 7 months, 1 week ago

I know the smell you speak of and I have noticed it for over twenty years downtown off 6th. Not all the time, certain days. I have also noticed it happens when the wind is blowing from the north. I made the assumption years ago its gotta be coming from the river banks.

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royalpain 7 months, 1 week ago

You do know that the water treatment plant is just north of there, right?

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nouseforaname 7 months, 1 week ago

KU owns their infrastructure, including water and sewer pipes. That's why KU's stuff doesn't show up on the city website - it's not city owned or maintained.

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LarryNative 7 months, 1 week ago

So that odor is coming from the treatment plant. I was not aware of that because I have been in that neighborhood a few doz times and I have never smelled that odor. I have a friend that lives on 300 block Louisina. I'll have to ask him if his neighborhood always stinks of sewage.

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loudmouthrealist 7 months, 1 week ago

royalpain

There is no "treatment plant" anywhere close. There is a drinking water plant at 2nd and Indiana, and the wast treatment plant is at the end of 8th st about 1 mile to the east. There is a small brick building to the N of that intersection. That may be a waste pump/transfer station but I am not sure what that is.

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CWGOKU 7 months, 1 week ago

Sorry, I flushed...............

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MADatLJW 7 months, 1 week ago

LarryNative, it's not coming from the river banks. It's coming from you, me, everybody. We're stinky people.

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LarryNative 7 months, 1 week ago

Mine smells like roses so I have no idea what your talking about.

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MADatLJW 7 months, 1 week ago

Oh wait...there's some city sanitation worker putting a green plastic cart out in my driveway right now. Great. Now the city is taking my waste out of both ends!

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HutchSaltHawk 7 months, 1 week ago

We had a similar problem 2 weeks ago off 23rd and Mass. No one from the city can tell me what the cause of that issue was.

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hear_me 7 months, 1 week ago

It's a pump station. We have a similar problem. I don't know why the city denies the smell.

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