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MindLegal t1_iyr03ox wrote

It’s Staten Island ewwww

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pleiop t1_iyr0iu4 wrote

It's really infuriating that our communities have to deal with that. We should be able to have reasonably clean air. Ridiculous that has to be said.

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Bumssik t1_iyr0t2w wrote

From season 2, episode 22a (Something Smells)

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nokhfvhj t1_iyr2azn wrote

Replying to pleiop (#851,976)

That nasty smell is the marshland that has died off for the season and is decaying. Once frozen the smell dissipates. New growth in the spring and the cycle continues…

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eggdropk t1_iyr2wm3 wrote

Replying to nokhfvhj (#852,054)

There’s also the giant white capsules filled with our waste (read: shit) that sit in a yard alongside the Turnpike waiting to be put on freight trains to Alabama. ~Exit 14/I-78

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njstein t1_iyr6427 wrote

Replying to Stock-Pension1803 (#851,956)

Eh not so much. There's a dump nearby on 547 and I suppose you could smell that with the wind blowing the right way, but it pales in comparison to North Jersey with all the industrial production and petroleum refining.

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theRealMaldez t1_iyr6596 wrote

Replying to meowmixplzdeliver1 (#852,146)

Our poop goes to a waste treatment facility where they separate the solids out, then dehydrate those solids and compress them into pellets which are then loaded onto railcars and shipped out west. From there, they'll mix the dried up turd pellets with wood chips and grass clippings and let it fester for a few months, then screen out the woodchips for reuse and use the remaining material as fertilizer. The remaining poop water at the waste treatment facility gets treated with chemicals until it's sanitary and/or pumped into the ocean.

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Wonderful_Year_4422 t1_iyr70nk wrote

New Jersey a waste pit

It’s like nobody here knows New Jersey history. A simple google scholar lookup into New Jersey waste would show that this state is literally built on top of garbage and it’s a fucking pit.

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nokhfvhj t1_iyr7khq wrote

My bad I thought we were talking GSP In South Jersey, and also going through Cheesequake

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kellyatta t1_iyr8rhq wrote

Elizabeth got that new garbage smell 😍😍🗑

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Dur-gro-bol t1_iyrb1cd wrote

Everyday we get onto 95 from that exit to go home we all look at each other in the work truck to see who farted.

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poodrew t1_iyrbkbx wrote

They don’t even have to be open

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[deleted] t1_iyrd1zg wrote

Replying to theRealMaldez (#852,201)

I work as a machinery mover, we install generators mostly for the processing plants. They all Have their own pungent smells. The worst was working on the top of the vats and replacing a blade of some sort. Wow the smell would make you tear up, you had to throw the shirts out gloves out because it was so disgusting

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mykepagan t1_iyrebii wrote

It was ten times worse in my yoof (1970s)

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_iyrfkgw wrote

  1. There is a LRSA wastewater treatment plant there
  2. There is Linden Combined Cycle Plant that uses reclaimed (read semi-clean but still smelly) water for cooling. As you might imagine this water evaporates.
  3. There is a marsh that also adds it small share
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KingJeffreyJoffa t1_iyrftvd wrote

Replying to theRealMaldez (#852,201)

I used to work at that wastewater treatment facility ( Joint Meetings of Essex and Union Counties)

They don't make the pellets anymore, but the dewatered sludge is still trucked out for filler and what not.

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Blackest_Beard t1_iyrlzlv wrote

I think I remember that dead body smell closer to exit 14 on the TP, and garage smell on the 13 near the Gothals..ugh.

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charisma1 t1_iyrnzmx wrote

Greatly improved (sarcastic). When I was a kid Exit 13 had a slaughter house the experience was unreal coming in from Staten Island which at that time was the world largest garbage dump.

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the_sungoddess t1_iyrohhs wrote

Ah, the smell of my childhood.

Didn't really realize how bad it was until I moved to South Jersey and then would drive back up to see my family

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NachoFries2020 t1_iyrp6l1 wrote

I grew up not far from there. I cringe and laugh when people called NJ “The Garden State” Uhh garden of what specifically? Stinky!!!!

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cutie__96 t1_iyrr3t5 wrote

Exit 1 too. There's a swamp around there and it straight up smells like someone farted

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9digitz t1_iyrral8 wrote

Replying to YawnTractor_1756 (#852,666)

The Linden cogen plant is not the cause of the pungent odors. Dispite there being a giant sign next to the turnpike that says Linden Cogeneration Plant, it is only a small part of a separate facility called the Phillips 66 Bayway refinery. That's where the problem lies. And the Cogen plant doesn't use water for cooling.

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sammiec05 t1_iyrsz7x wrote

🤣🤣 turnpike? Lol it’s funny when coming home from a long trip you start to smell that you know you’re home

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Gianna8619 t1_iyrxf6k wrote

Tinton falls/Neptune has entered the chat

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SPKmnd90 t1_iyrzfuh wrote

That ride over the Goethals was a living hell.

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Krimreaper1 t1_iys0ehy wrote

And then the Sopranos theme starts

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CitizenTed t1_iysaovp wrote

Back in the 80's, my buddy and I used to drive from Middlesex county to Brooklyn once or twice a week. For reasons.

On the West Shore Expressway we'd keep an eye out for the "Arthur Kill" exit sign. Once spotted we swung into action. Windows rolled up. Climate control set to recirculate. Accelerator pressed as far as prudence would allow. Still we'd endure the stench.

Apparently, the Arthur Kills dump was filled and capped in 2008. Now it's the "Freshkills Park". Which is nice. I just wish they would have done it in the 1960's.

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Away-Cicada t1_iysdtll wrote

Exit 52 on 295 also. I put my AC on recirculating from exit 60 to 47. No thanks.

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ksully72 t1_iysem3c wrote

Armpit of the country.

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ApplianceHealer t1_iyskax7 wrote

Exit 13: how we keep the passing out of state riffraff away from the nice parts

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BreakerSoultaker t1_iysqenr wrote

I have to tell people in other states or countries…North Jersey ≠ New Jersey

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elmwoodblues t1_iyss7bz wrote

Replying to SPKmnd90 (#853,443)

I worked different shifts way back, and would sometimes cross the Goethals around 11 PM. If work was being done, they would neck it down to one lane each direction; like it wasn't narrow enough already for a new driver in an old Mercury Montclair with dodgy tires..

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njcannagade t1_iytevuo wrote

14A native if you ever spend time out of Bayonne and come back the smell is almost overwhelming ...

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Atlas03 t1_iyu2vpn wrote

Yeah that’s my ex. Sorry.

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BYNX0 t1_iyudn8o wrote

Replying to elmwoodblues (#854,493)

Luckily, that old rust bucket got replaced. Now we just need a new outerbridge (which actually refers to the name of a guy, Eugene Outerbridge or something lol)

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foscrew t1_iyuhdl3 wrote

When you drive past between exits 1 and 2 on 195

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elmwoodblues t1_iyvg2sx wrote

Replying to BYNX0 (#856,275)

Yeah, I see that modern marvel when I'm on the Pike and it's like when they show San Francisco in a Star Trek movie: familiar old stuff with this jarring chunk of future plopped down in the middle of it all

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FordMan100 t1_iyz681a wrote

Good old Bayway refinery. The arm pit of Elizabeth Linden.

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raguwatanabe t1_iz71wbi wrote

Thats smell is how i know im only 15mins from home on my trips back from VA

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1marty3cups t1_ize4a0p wrote

There is level of resiliency and tenacity among jersey natives that i'm convinced is a result of years of inhaling deep at 13A; separates the wheat from the chaff.

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