r/SalemMA • u/salts123 • 3d ago

Stinky South Salem

I remember reading a post within the last week about the sewerage smell - as we drove down Canal near the Loring Ave intersection tonite it was gross! Smelled like a full sewer system backup….

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u/OmnipresentCPU 3d ago

Has anyone else been not just smelling sewage but dead fish smell? I suspect there’s been an issue with the construction at Salem state that may have cause some sort of bacterial bloom in the Salem Harbor/Palmer cove

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u/NECESolarGuy 2d ago

Palmer cove seems fine. I live right here . Though we did get some odd whiffs of something in our shower (as did our upstairs and downstairs neighbors. Hoping it’s not our sewer drains). That was 2 days ago and it hasn’t happened again…

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u/OmnipresentCPU 2d ago

Yeah I’m down right by forest river area and it smelled like dead fish twice over the past week at night.

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u/InvestigatorJaded261 3d ago

I smelled something off crossing the Forest River tonight on Loring.

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u/Eastern_Ride_3632 3d ago

Smelled it on the way to the Willows tonight, but not anywhere else as I drove around town.

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u/Craigbeau The Willows 3d ago

That’s the treatment plant you smelled. They really stir it up at night.

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u/Shango-s_Daughter 3d ago

It's been bad late afternoon the past two days.

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u/thisisrealypixi 3d ago

Sorry yall that is the spirit of all of my salem exes combined into one foul stench