Why buy in Woodbury? It freakin stinks every other day out there.

I went WAY WAY WAY out of my way this morning and looked around the area to figure it out.



First, all that stuff you see over there that is being farmed is strawberries. Pretty much everything you see farmed in OC is going to be strawberrries because the water is so expensive the cost accounting doesn't work out for any other crop. And again, strawberries don't have any odor.



<em>But.....</em>



There is a huge greenwaste recycling operation on the corner of Marine Way and Perimiter Rd (this is on El Toro south of the 133 and east of the 5) that was steaming away when I drove by it. I looked it up on Google maps, but I don't know how to hyperlink it here. Compost piles of greenwaste smell pretty horrible.



Anyway, there's your answer.
 
people of irvine,



i found a jar of shrimp paste left open by accident and closed it. problem solved.



my apologies...
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1229126440]Graph,



They plant strawberries now so they can start harvesting in March/April.



That truck you saw was UN32, a nitrogen rich fertilizer that has no odor. There is little pest pressure this time of year because it is cold. On certain crops you have to apply fungicide, but it also has no odor.



Most ag chemicals have no odor anymore because it annoys the non grower neighbors. They actually add the odor so that folks who don't know better will stay out.</blockquote>
It's so gangstah when no_vas talks farming.
 
As I stated in the other thread it's from the huge compost piles started for the expensive-wasteful-not_wanted-mini-demo-shit-park. Drive on in on Marine way and smell away. They are glorious.
 
It's fitting in every way about the Great Hole Park of OC.



Everyone here knows we need usable parks...like soccer, softball, a few trees and a play ground and you have yourself a nice starter park. What are the idiots doing? A demo park no once can even use. Looks good for the oc paper and TV, but that's it. A fake park for fake city leaders.
 
[quote author="acpme" date=1229132540]people of irvine,



i found a jar of shrimp paste left open by accident and closed it. problem solved.



my apologies...</blockquote>


Acpme,



What about your yard? all the shrimp paste on the tables with flies and maggots. You are stinking up the entire Woodbury.



<img src="http://static.flickr.com/23/111962374_1b46686cbf.jpg" alt="" />
 
I drove South on 133 to the I5 and the smell was pretty potent the other morning. I needed to shut off the fresh air and later vent the car of the compost smell. Though I too live in WB and can't smell that far away. Though I know they do truck fresh compost into WB and other fine Irvine villages and commercial developments for landscaping.
 
I was driving on Sand Canyon this morning behind a big truck heading North towards Portola Springs. The truck (its contents) had the same smell that I sometimes smell at the intersection of the 5 and the Sand Canyon. Bits of brown dirt was falling out from the top of the containers in the back. They looked like fertilizer to me...
 
[quote author="kayochan" date=1229220261]I was driving on Sand Canyon this morning behind a big truck heading North towards Portola Springs. The truck (its contents) had the same smell that I sometimes smell at the intersection of the 5 and the Sand Canyon intersection. Bits of brown dirt was falling out from the top of the containers in the back. They looked like fertilizer to me...</blockquote>


Not all fertilizer is brown. Cow shit is brown and can be used for fertilizer, but requires the close proximity of a large number of cows within, say 5 or 10 miles. The transportation cost is more than the cow shit. There are no dairy cows close to Irvine. The stuff you buy at Home Depot or Lowes is dried composted steer manure and has no odor (because they dried it out).



Those strawberries are all irrigated via subsurface drip systems that also act as a vector to deliver fertilizer in exacting ammounts right now to the roots. The UN32 fertilizer I mentioned earlier has the consistancy of simple syrup and about the same translucent color. It has no odor.



What you saw was likely mulch used in landscaping going off to some new development in Portola Springs.
 
The only reason why i re-asked the question cause I was getting a little sick of the smell. Half the people in the last posting said it was fertilizer and half said it was the compost of those trucks.



Based on what I hear now, it's those damn trucks and the smelling compost in the dump.



I still don't know why you would pay a 1 million plus Woodbury home next to this mess.
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1229222549][quote author="kayochan" date=1229220261]I was driving on Sand Canyon this morning behind a big truck heading North towards Portola Springs. The truck (its contents) had the same smell that I sometimes smell at the intersection of the 5 and the Sand Canyon intersection. Bits of brown dirt was falling out from the top of the containers in the back. They looked like fertilizer to me...</blockquote>


Not all fertilizer is brown. Cow shit is brown and can be used for fertilizer, but requires the close proximity of a large number of cows within, say 5 or 10 miles. The transportation cost is more than the cow shit. There are no dairy cows close to Irvine. The stuff you buy at Home Depot or Lowes is dried composted steer manure and has no odor (because they dried it out).



Those strawberries are all irrigated via subsurface drip systems that also act as a vector to deliver fertilizer in exacting ammounts right now to the roots. The UN32 fertilizer I mentioned earlier has the consistancy of simple syrup and about the same translucent color. It has no odor.



What you saw was likely mulch used in landscaping going off to some new development in Portola Springs.</blockquote>
Wow, No_Vas knows about a lot shit! ;-P
 
When I was a kid, much of SoCal smelled like cows or oranges. Now, most of those areas smell like freeways.
 
[quote author="frank69m" date=1229251734]

Based on what I hear now, it's those damn trucks and the smelling compost in the dump.



I still don't know why you would pay a 1 million plus Woodbury home next to this mess.</blockquote>


nevermind the compost and those trucks, there's a ton of landscaping. all those lovely rose gardens, soccer fields, and greenbelts mean there's sh** literally somewhere around the neighborhood on any given day. i know some folk who don't like the briney smell of the ocean so the idea of drooling over a multi-million dollar beach house makes them barf. you could move to the concrete jungles of some metropolis and smell musky subway vents, processed meats, and trash all day long.



the freshest air in the united states is on the big island of hawaii due to trade winds and being the most remote islands on earth. yet half the island is currently covered in volcanic smog from kilaleau crater that is giving headaches to people as far away as honolulu. in general the humid tropical air in places like that bothers me. too mildewy-like for me even if the air quality technically is better than it is here.



it's the way of the world -- it stinks!
 
[quote author="irvine_home_owner" date=1229393715]frank69m wants to live in space.



No smells in a vacuum.</blockquote>




Na I want to live in your toilet after you pooped.
 
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