Residents complain about foul smell lingering in Warren.
WARREN, Ohio – For weeks residents in Warren have dealt with a bad smell outside and inside of their homes.
Wednesday night Warren City Council announced the stench is coming from Patriot Water Treatment and how they could be filing a lawsuit against the company.
Residents said they are sick of living with unpleasant scent.
The odor permeating the air throughout Warren has caused a big stink.
For days now Amy Fry and her family have been breathing in spouts of a bad smelling air at their Hall Street Home.
She says some days they won’t even go outside.
Patriot Water Treatment takes in wastewater from companies and treats it.
Ed Haller, head of Warren’s Water Pollution Control, says two companies giving their waste water to Patriot to treat had a chemical in it called dimethyl disulfide, causing the smell.
“So they are discontinuing receiving as far as I understand from those two companies, and now that they understand the issue there, they are looking much more closely at it and they are doing testing within their facility,” Haller said.