There was a time when odors from places like manufacturing plants and wastewater treatment facilities were considered simply facts of life. Community residents looked upon the aroma of paper mills, for example, as the smell of money and jobs.
It’s different today, observes Robert Bowker, principal of Bowker & Associates, a consulting engineering firm in Portland, Maine, that specializes in the control of odors and corrosion in sewers and wastewater treatment plants.
People today in general are much more sensitive to odors, and they expect remedies. That’s putting pressure on wastewater treatment plant managers and operators. Bowker observes that solutions to odor
