When I worked at UPS, I delivered to Rock Ten on Manufactures Road, the
smell you are referring to always smelled suspiciously close to what the
air smells like inside this plant, but I have never read or heard anyone
suggesting the smell is coming from there. 

Michael R. Roeser
IT Analyst II
College of Engineering - Computer Science
317 EMCS 
Phone 425 -1717 Pager 395-2304

"We should be careful not to pare down God's omnipotence to the level of
our human opinions."

 

"This correspondence should be considered a public record and subject to
public inspection pursuant to the Tennessee Public Records Act"

 

-----Original Message-----
From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mike Headlee
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] Possible Source of Brock Hall Smells

This may or may not have anything to do with the "Brock smell" but has
anybody smelled that nasty smell while driving accross the Olgiatti
bridge in the mornings?  I work at the Central Energy Plant on the
midnight shift and I smell it on my way home about 8-ish in the
mornings.   

Also, during the summer months, there is a strong odor that drifts
across campus around 2:00 a.m. just about every night.  It's almost
stifling.  I'm on campus during this time so I'm FULLY aware of it.
There has been several attempts by different folks to identify it but
nobody has been able to come up with anything definitive.  It has even
been speculated that it "could be weather related."   I've got a fair
idea where it originates but Philip D. Glass denies any involvement. 

"...there have been reports that the odor originated from a paper
processing plant located to the north of Bradley County, but no official
sources have confirmed that. The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air
Pollution Control Bureau is also trying to track down the source of the
odor. The Bureau says there are also paper mills in north Georgia and
north Alabama, but again, the odors so far have not been identified with
those plants either...."

I'm no meteorologist but don't the winter jetstream "generally" flow
from the northwest to the southeast?....at least in MY mind, leaving the
Bowater paper mill in Charleston (along with those plants from Georgia
and Alabama) sorta out of the equasion?   


My guess.....for a "paper mill-ish" smell, sniff in the direction of
Manufacturers Road. 

   

-----Original Message-----
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Michael Headlee
Senior Power Plant Operator
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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