Emotions Flare During Informal Hearing on Krochmal Farm
Board of Health will vote at March 17 meeting whether to keep site assignment in place.
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The Board of Health hearing on Krochmal Farm stirred emotions.
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Every time the Board of Health puts Krochmal Farm on its agenda, emotions tend to run high and Thursday night was no exception.
The board conducted an informal hearing the site assignment for the farm. The site assignment was put in place two years ago to establish firm guidelines the farm needed to follow to control the odors generated by the piggery operated by the farm.
Several residents took the opportunity to reiterate complaints about the smell.
Mary Ellen Fernald
10:18 pm on Saturday, March 5, 2011
Good job, Bill!
southie
10:51 am on Sunday, March 6, 2011
why didn't these people do all this research before they bought a house next to a farm?? farms been there since 1800s. long live the pigs!!
Sarah
12:31 pm on Sunday, March 6, 2011
If I was given correct information the HUGE pig building of the farm has only been around a few years. I also believe I read they did not get the proper permits or something to build it in the first place. Now, I live nowhere near the place, but if you happen to travel on 93 at all in the warmer months, there's a certain area where you pass by and it smells like death. If you check Google Earth, the smell has to be coming from the farm. I feel so bad for people who live in those neighborhoods. A lot I believe have been there long before the smell got so bad.
southie
1:15 pm on Sunday, March 6, 2011
lived on south st for 40+ years. back when the dump was open the smell was worse. old garbage and farm smell was bad but you delt with it. pigs were there when i was young 70s mybe not as many pigs but the dump smell made up for it. but again you knew were you lived. also the smell has been better over the last year or so. so they did get some results but most people just want the farm shut down and to me thats not right.
malcolm nichols
2:09 pm on Sunday, March 6, 2011
Seems silly, kinda like the residents of Gilroy CA complaining about the garlic smell.
Ed B
11:54 am on Monday, March 7, 2011
Southie you are 100000000000000% correct. The bigger issue is the dump. When I was a kid I helped my father cut wood at the dump I saw 55 gallon drum afetr 55 gallon drum pushed into a hole that was dutg and filled bak in after all teh barrels were gone. The dump is a tioxic waste site. All those who bought a house by the dump/piggery why do you think you got it at such a deal???? All you new people to the town ask your self why did they have to shut down the wells that are at the end of Poplar Street/ because those 55 gallon drums I told you about along with tons of other nasty chemicals got into the water supply from the dump. All those chemicals are under your feet. Your kids play within 1/4 mile of a toxic waste aite. Smell won't kill you but what is burried there will.
Homeduck
2:43 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Factory farming is a disgusting waste-intensive and unsustainable operation and this piggery should be run out of town. This is a populated residential area, certainly there are better places for this disgusting practice. I feel terrible for those whose property values and quality of life are impacted by this literal cesspool the Cave family, or whoever they are, are trying to pass off as "farming".