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poodrew t1_iyrbkbx wrote

They don’t even have to be open

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Summoarpleaz t1_iyrfjts wrote

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Fixitboyblue2 t1_iyqyasc wrote

Used to be a lot worse decades ago

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peter-doubt t1_iyqyil0 wrote

It used to reach exit 11.

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DustHeadGorilla t1_iysl6ra wrote

we always thought it came from cateret. sorry if youre from there. my uncle loves it.

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TodayTime8321 t1_iyt4eje wrote

What is the smell that comes and goes on rt 35 in the Laurence Harbor area? Just the surrounding water?

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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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9digitz t1_iyrhz2b wrote

Wrong

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_iyridg2 wrote

Wrong

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9digitz t1_iyrral8 wrote

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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YawnTractor_1756 t1_iysilja wrote

>Cogen plant doesn't use water for cooling

Do you really expect me to believe some anonymous dude in the comments, not an article from a news site?

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Sell_TheKids_ForFood t1_iysqmvw wrote

The Cogen Plant and Combined Cycle Plant are 2 different facilities on each side of the turnpike.

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ThePresbyter t1_iytahok wrote

It's the water treatment plant on the Eastern side of the NJTPK and probably some of the marshes with decaying matter.

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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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BYNX0 t1_iyud5ti wrote

Unless you live off exit 2

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MindLegal t1_iyr03ox wrote

It’s Staten Island ewwww

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DingusTaargus t1_iyv690c wrote

SI. Dump has been closed for over 20 years.

Hate to say it, but that stank is 100% on NJ.

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zsdrfty t1_iyvx0eb wrote

If we’re being semantic, Staten Island is a dump

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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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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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nokhfvhj t1_iyr2azn wrote

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

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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meowmixplzdeliver1 t1_iyr4oqj wrote

What do they do with our poop

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theRealMaldez t1_iyr6596 wrote

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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[deleted] t1_iyrd1zg wrote

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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meowmixplzdeliver1 t1_iyrdupe wrote

Our food is fertilized by our poop? I always it was cows. Anyways interesting but of info, thx for write up

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KingJeffreyJoffa t1_iyrftvd wrote

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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spam99 t1_iyr6hdy wrote

exit 13a also has a poop plant right there next to the goethels bridge on NJ side

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Krimreaper1 t1_iys0ehy wrote

And then the Sopranos theme starts

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ratinthecellar t1_iyuxfib wrote

You woke up this morning... had a smell watering your eyes WOKE UP THIS MORNING!!!

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clusterfuck82 t1_iyqyvlz wrote

What is at exit 13?

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KeyWest- t1_iyr73oo wrote

Avalon. But it smells like fresh air coming off the ocean. It doesn't smell like a dump like Turnpike's exit 13.

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reeny706 t1_iyrifsf wrote

Municipal waste water treatment plant.

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Stock-Pension1803 t1_iyr020l wrote

Exit 100 on the parkway too some days

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Army_of_blood t1_iyrg60q wrote

Try everyday by exit 100 lol. No matter when I go, it's there.

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njstein t1_iyr6427 wrote

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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ALegendOfGreemulax t1_iys944c wrote

Yeah, the dump in Wayside. It’s right next to the parkway right around mile marker 100. It smells very bad in the summer.

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conway1308 t1_iys1u93 wrote

I smell it too. I heard it was a Sriracha factory lol but I don't believe that.. does smell like that though.

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Stock-Pension1803 t1_iysqk46 wrote

It’s a landfill off shafto road

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StatusPollution2576 t1_iyt5ylv wrote

That’s a classic landfill. Shit wreaks in the summer. Used to live in hock and before that willowbrook. To this day whenever I drive on shafts right after the Wawa you get rocked

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Bumssik t1_iyr0t2w wrote

From season 2, episode 22a (Something Smells)

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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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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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mykepagan t1_iyrebii wrote

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

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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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ecovironfuturist t1_iys0uoi wrote

Gotta switch the vent from fresh to recirculating.

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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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ApplianceHealer t1_iyskax7 wrote

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

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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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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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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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BreakerSoultaker t1_iysqenr wrote

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

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Atlas03 t1_iyu2vpn wrote

Yeah that’s my ex. Sorry.

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foscrew t1_iyuhdl3 wrote

When you drive past between exits 1 and 2 on 195

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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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kellyatta t1_iyr8rhq wrote

Elizabeth got that new garbage smell 😍😍🗑

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BYNX0 t1_iyudhqr wrote

Not the entire town… just the part by the turnpike

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SPKmnd90 t1_iyrzfuh wrote

That ride over the Goethals was a living hell.

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elmwoodblues t1_iyss7bz wrote

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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BYNX0 t1_iyudn8o wrote

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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elmwoodblues t1_iyvg2sx wrote

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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ksully72 t1_iysem3c wrote

Armpit of the country.

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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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BYNX0 t1_iyudk67 wrote

A few bad parts doesn’t make the entire state bad… every state has their armpits

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