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- "Imagine not being able to air out your home when it got hot in the sun, when something gets burned on the stove, when you've changed a diaper"
- "My family could not enjoy OUR own property much of April vacation because of smells the likes of which I have never smelled at any other farm I've ever been to or by."
- "Because of this "farm" we couldn't use our own yard most of April vacation!"
- "People coexisted with the farm for decades without any issues. It was the recent installation of the piggery/cafo and all that waste that has caused the problems."
- "Oh my gosh…our very AIR!! My house has been nearly constantly assaulted."
- "I'm having my son's confirmation party this Sat. and I'm not sure weather to pray for rain or not due to the smell. My yard is ready, but if it stinks people will be inside anyway. Isn't it awful to have to think this way!?!"
- "At 8:00 tonight I took my dog out for a walk but the air was so foul I had to go back in after about a minute."
- "I planted a few flowers again, figuring I could enjoy gardening. But I was wrong – totally, amazingly, wrong."
- "This town has become hell for us."
- "Help!! We are suffocating on thick pig s_ _ _ odor throughout our house!!!! I’m holding my breath in my own home…"
- "Normal Farm: Hogs in the grass: YES... ...Factory Farm: A thousand hogs crammed into a building: NO!"
- "I am a 50 YEAR RESIDENT! It is UNBELIEVABLE that this change occurred with NO warning, input, consent by ANYONE in this neighborhood!"
- "Normally when there is an odor in a home you open windows. Not here. My family slept in a home filled with the stench of an operation that does not belong in a neighborhood."
- "Why should I have to close my windows? I can't have fresh air because I moved near a "farm"? ... what farm? It's a cafo, a hog factory."
- "My dad has pleural mesothelioma. I do not appreciate that he has to breathe that air at his home. One of his few pleasures is to sit on the deck in the sun and putter around in the yard in nice weather and I am worried about him not being able to enjoy what will probably be his last summer."
- "I grew up near the farm. The farm always had a "farm odor" but it was not noxious and nobody ever complained about it."
- "I thought I was having a septic crisis inside and after having conversations with my neighbors, they said the same thing."
- "I called the Board of Health about this morning about the awful smell at my home that was there before leaving for work and also let them know that you could smell it in the parking lot of my workplace - which is in Wilmington on the other side of the highway."
- "I can"t even enjoy my pool without that stench driving everyone in the house. I had my daughter's friends and parents over to go swimming, that lasted about an hour until that stench came and drove everyone inside. The smell made them just want to vomit."
- "This evening I took my 5 year old son outside to look through our telescope for his first time to view Saturn sitting high in the sky in the mid evening. What should have been a memorable experience for a young boy and his dad was ruined by choking odors that drove us inside."
- "My kids went outside to use their new trampoline. They came right back in because the smell outside is disgusting!"
- "My parents and I have lived here since 1987. I have a disabled son with respiratory issues and when he gets picked up for school the smell is so raunchy that my son, the bus driver, and I are gagging."
- "I have only had three outdoor gatherings and not because of the weather, I'm afraid to have company because of the smells."
- "It's too bad that on this beautiful summer day we are unable to sit by the pool and enjoy it because the odor is so unbearable!"
- "I was out trying to work in my garden, the odor coming from the pig farm today is really very bad, it's really a beautiful dry day and the odor prevented me from staying out any longer."
- "Good thing we have central air as I don't think we will want to be outside, again, this summer, if it is anything like last summer."
- "Well here it is Thanksgiving morning and the first comment out of our guests as they arrived was "What is that smell??" Welcome to Tewksbury !!!!"
- "There's no enjoying being outside in your own yard on a nice day. It's actually sickening. It's hard to explain what the odor smells like. I've had guest actually leave our yard because of it."
- "I am so happy to hear it is not just me that cant bear the odor this farm does to us."
- "I once had my sons first birthday party outside with a barbeque, the stench was so bad my guests and I had to move the party inside the house and turn on the air conditioner because we couldn't even open the windows the smell was so bad. My family and I were so embarrassed."
- "I drive to Boston a couple times a week and always get repulsed for the 1 mile stretch between exit 42 and 41...Everyone that travels down 93 knows about it."
- "I had my sons third birthday party outside and my guests were reeling from the stench, It was quite embarrassing. There are many days I have to run from my car into my home gagging from the stench and can't open my windows."
- "I spent a large chunk of my youth bringing hay to a farm and never did it smell the way this place smells."
- "Well at 7:45am when I sent my 6th grader to the bus stop, the wall of stench was right there upon opening the door waiting to walk him down."
- "If my grandchildren come over and smell the stench when they get out of the car, they cover their noses and ask to go home."
- "This farm smell gets so strong sometimes that my kids will come in the house and tell my wife and I that it is making them sick."
- "We have an office on the Andover/Wilmington line... We wish to have lunch outings and can't because of the putrid smell and that cannot be good for our health. We have been here 2 years and it has only gotten worse."
- "There are times I don't want to take my child to the park right across the street from our house because the smell is so bad. We have to stay at home with our windows shut. On nice days on the weekends I have to go to my sisters houses out of town to get away from it."
- ".Our company has the horrible smell, all summer long at our location. We are unable to have our employees sit outside at the tables provided, due to the foul odor."
- "We actually had our septic pumped twice in three years trying to get rid of the odors until a neighbor told us it was from the pig farm. It is really bad when you can't even invite family and friends over for a cookout because no one wants to put up with the smell."
- "In 1955, my parents and my three brothers moved from Cambridge MA to a nice little house on South St. I spent my entire childhood on South St. I remember the "piggery" smelling every so often in the summer and when it smelled it was never for very long.
- In 1999 my mother had a stroke. Now she is 80 years old and can't even enjoy the neighborhood she loves so much."
- "There have been many a night that I've wanted to sit on my back porch and have refrained from doing so because of the odor."
- "I frequently experience headaches and nausea after exposure to the noxious odor from inside my workplace."
- "My biggest concern is of how the air around here might be affecting my nine-month-old, and my three year old, sons."
- "I was riding my motorcycle home and drove into the smell. I started to vomit in my helmet and almost lost control of my bike."
- "I have been a resident for over 10 years now, it was not uncommon for us to smell fertilizer or strong manure odor once or twice a year, but this year has gotten out of control."
- "Board of Health investigations always describe a “mild odor” even though the complaints themselves describe the odor as horrible, awful, horrendous, etc.!"
- "Would love to leave the windows open in my house on a nice day, but can not, because the entire inside of the house then smells disgusting....It gets in my car.. it is everywhere!!!!"
- "I run almost everyday and sometimes I can't even step out my door without getting nauseous. The other day I drove to the other side of Tewksbury just so I could run without getting sick to my stomach."
- "Yesterday around 4:30 I answered my door bell to find a friend checking the bottom of her shoe because she thought she must have stepped in dog waste and didn't want to track it into my house. Had to explain the smell was coming from the "piggery" a mile away. How embarrassing!!"
- "Even on 70 degree days my upstairs bedrooms get very hot. I cannot open windows many days out of the year, so I have to use AC instead."
- "A child in the neighborhood said it smelled like a hundred people just went poopies on her lawn."
- "We have tried enjoying these nice September and October evenings with our windows open but we have been awoken with the foul smell."
- "I've lived here 20 years and this is the first year that the smell is so bad (this past week in particular) that it made me sick to my stomach. I had to shut my windows on warm days."
- "This smell was so bad the other day that my daughter my husband and I were outside fixing our deck and each one of us got sick and had to leave our own house for the evening and returned at around 10:30 at night. We had to close all of our windows in the house as well."
- "How do you sell your house without basically having to lie to people about the odor that permeates every spring and summer and now into the fall? "
- "Will there ever be a time when we want to plan an outdoor event in our yards and not have to worry about the stench? "
- "I live over a mile away from this "farm", have so for 15 years. Never knew it was there until 3 years ago. That's when the smell became so intense and so obnoxious that it would gag you."
- "I walked my wife down the driveway this morning to say goodbye as she and I head off to work at about 9am and we both found ourselves saying goodbye and running off to our cars."
- "I should be able to sit out in my yard and enjoy my property and surroundings, but we can't "
- "My dad was born and raised on a farm and spent over 25 years working the farm. He has noticed the worsening of the odor and tells me that something is not right!"
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Not a
traditional farm, a hog factory.
The Krochmal Farm Hog Facility is believed to be the largest and the first concentrated hog production facility
in Massachusetts,
impacting long-established suburban neighborhoods in two, sometimes
three, towns. Recently built without permits, hearings, or
public discourse of any kind. Massachusetts Department of Agricultural
Resources admits that it is not typical in Massachusetts
- The Town of Tewksbury has issued a site assignment...
- Town of Wilmington is in court...
- A Hearing has taken place at the Statehouse...
- Hundreds of documented odor complaints in three separate towns
on file...
- A letter from the Superintendant of Schools in Wilmington...
- Hundreds of fed-up neighbors attended a community meeting...
...And still there are horrible odors at bus stops, in yards and in
homes.
This is not a traditional farm and this not the stereotypical story about
"yuppies" and "poor farmers". This is the story of
established neighborhoods being assaulted by a factory style hog
facility and the composting and spreading of millions of gallons of hog
waste in a densely populated area just outside of Boston.This operation has adversely affected three towns and damages the
quality of life of residents, workers and
students at a school.
We believe those who promote this factory style of farming are fighting
hard against us and misleading you as to what we are about. This
neighborhood has existed at least as long as the farm. This is not a case of a
lone farm suddenly surrounded by new homes.
According to Building Dept. records (submitted almost three years after
the fact) a 1500 capacity "finisher building" was installed at
Krochmal Farms, LLC without permits (see
violation notice here) and apparently no one in the Town or
neighborhood was notified. The construction of this confined animal
feeding operation style building
and the expansion of the so-called "Agricultural Compost" operation on
part of the farm coincide with a large increase of noxious odors and neighbor
complaints. This "finisher building's" tank holds almost a half-million
gallons of hog waste directly below where the confined hogs live. This
building has 50 inch fans which force the gases that emanate from the
hogs' waste into the air of our neighborhood. This waste
material is near wetlands and only a matter of feet from homes. This
building was constructed without building permits, without oversight
from the Conservation Commission or Board of Health and without
notifying any neighbors.
We believe this is Massachusetts' largest hog
operation and first Factory Style Hog Operation. While we had applauded Krochmal Farm for installing a
system, in the Tewksbury part of the farm, that seemed to abate the odors somewhat
in Tewksbury during the day, there are still uncontrolled terrible odors
permeating homes in in both towns. Ruining events and closing windows.
Read testimonials here.
It is well known that confined animal feeding facilities like this can
be a
serious concern. Enormous amounts of feces and urine are stored,
spread and composted on land in this long-establishd neighborhood. If it can happen in this
neighborhood yours can be next.
And there is more to this than odors... there are real
environmental
and human health concerns here. There is an enormous amount of hog waste - feces and urine -
stored and spread on the land here.
Is your
neighborhood next?
It happened
here. The precedent has been set. Even worse there is
legislation at the State House that would further erode the
power Boards of Health in Massachusetts to protect the citizens
from the harm of factory farms.
Our Goal:
We demand breathable air and clean water
in our neighborhood.
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Announcement:
After years of living with
horrible odors that badly damage our quality of life and that may threaten
our health, many residents from both Tewksbury and Wilmington are filing a
lawsuit against the Krochmal hog operation.
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Are you a local resident who wants to do something about this problem in our
neighborhood?Professor Tajik of UMass
Lowell is conducting an anonymous health survey of people in our
neighborhood. Dozens of people have already been interviewed. This is only a
simple questionnaire; no medical records needed, no cameras, no catch.
Nobody will know who participated. There will just be a student asking you a
few questions about your experience in this neighborhood. It takes about a
half-hour and you will be given a gift certificate for your time.
This study will be helpful in our struggle against the odors. Our Towns have
refused to do anything like this despite the enormous outcry from residents.
Contact:
Professor Mansoureh Tajik
Community Health
& Sustainability
U-Mass Lowell
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USDA Findings:
...concentrated hog production has imposed
environmental risks and nuisance impacts on nearby communities.
In addition, society in general has raised concerns about food
safety and animal welfare issues.
See USDA article HERE |
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Myths vs. Truth
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Superintendent of
Wilmington Schools:
"Students cover their nose when they get off the school bus"
"On very hot days the odor permeates the
entire building causing staff and students to be nauseous"
(North Intermediate School)
See Letter HERE
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Why does
the Mass. Farm Bureau
Federation have it's facts wrong?
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