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What’s That Smell? Something Is Stinking Up Aspen’s Crisp Winter Air

Feb. 12, 2013 8:39pm Liz Klimas

When most people think of Aspen — those not living in the Colorado skiing destination — they probably picture a perfect white blanketed landscape with crisp, cool smelling mountain air. Unfortunately though, some residents in town have been wrinkling their noses each time they take a whiff and officials aren’t quite sure what is going on.

The issue has been traced to a problem at the Aspen Consolidated Sanitation District. The Aspen Daily News reported the operations manager Nathan Nelson saying something must not be working with the odor control system, but he’s not sure what:

Nelson has sent samples of the system’s “media,” which consists of redwood chips and rocks that bacteria grows in, to the manufacturer. Biorem, the Canada-based company, said the sample came back normal. An air sample was sent out last week and Nelson is awaiting the results, in the hopes of determining where the breakdown might be in the process.

Residents in the area told the Aspen Daily News there are probably 10 days — not in a row — out of the year when the smell gets bad — it’s part of the territory. But this stench has stuck around for two to three weeks at this point.

Nelson too acknowledged that some smell cannot be avoided.

“We are not treating roses down here,” he said to the Daily News, but noted that wastewater treatment is still going on perfectly normal at the facility and that the smell should not alarm residents about that operation.

Watch this report from CBS Denver regarding the stinkin’ situation:

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NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:25pm
It just goes to show you that even the “Enlightened One’s” excrement really does stink!

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PublicArtillery
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:47am
Someone probably has a big old weed farm down the street and they have smoking parties every day.

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Moliminous
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:08am
Moral decay does have a lingering odor. You really start to stink before you realize you’ve been dead all these years and just didn’t know it.

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Iamnotanumber
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:29am
What!?!? Trouble in paradise???? It is caused by the Californication of your state! They destroyed Cali, now they come to trash the Rockies!

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Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:14am
But the residents of Aspen told me their poop didn’t smell.

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MrObamablows
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:47pm
I know what crap smell is Air Force one did a fly over!

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- fb274
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:35am
  Didn’t AF-2 carry someone and 2 dependents there on the taxpayer’s dime for a skiing vacation not that long ago. Could be residue from that.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:20pm
Moochelle’s there and her doppelganger is in DC

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lorial
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:47pm
Hmmm, I guess they’re finding out their sh/t must stink!

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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:40pm
It could be from all the oversized duck lips exploding.

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copatriots
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:22pm
Couldn’t be happening to a lonelier group of people.

But, ewwww, that smell, can’t you smell that smell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAPoN8qs0Q

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Eastinfection
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:18pm
“….reported the operations manager Nathan Nelson saying something must not be working with the odor control system.”

Thanks Captain Obvoius

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:25pm
  No $hit!!
  Pun intended (:
  
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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:10pm
Its the stench from all of the ill gotten gains of those who frequent Aspen

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The-Monk
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:53pm
Didn’t O just go there for his annual “Skeet shooting on skies” vacation?

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:15pm
  Hey Monk:
  
  It’s the smell of fear and loathing with a touch of arrogance.
  
  If there were two parts we could ship off to California, Colorado would send Aspen and Boulder off gladly. I used to have to do deliveries every 2 weeks to Boulder back in the 80′s, it was like a Cheech and Chong movie.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:27pm
  Heehee Darmok!
  
  Be glad you don’t have to make deliveries there these days. It is remnants of the Occupy movement. And now their drugs they get come from “doctors”.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:31pm
  Smells like Teen Spirit!
  
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bioya1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:53pm
I think it’s a major spill of Moochelle’s perfume.

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ledbythnose
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:46pm
I can save them some trouble, The smell is the stench of the Elitist Hollywood , Botox filled Lips and Filth that come there to flaunt their wealth before a broken Nation of People who want a free Obama Phone.

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LOTO
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:46pm
Its obviously the stench of liberals not bathing and only using one sheet of paper.

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