Environmental complaint received 2020-12-29 10:00:00
Source: International Paper - Savannah
Source location: 1200 West Lathrop Avenue
Savannah, Georgia 31415
Complaint location: [Not entered]

My husband and I live on the eastern edge of the Savannah Historic District, and have been troubled lately by what seems to be a sharp increase in early morning episodes of strong odors from the paper mill a few miles west of us.

It was so noxious this morning that both of us have headaches. The smell woke me up at around 4:00 a.m., and while I’m aware that wind and other weather conditions, etc. have an impact, we’ve both noticed that it happens around the same time of day every time and appears to be happening much more frequently than it used to.

Checking the concentration data on the EPD website, it does appear there was an uptick in emissions picked up at the nearby monitoring station this morning, but I am not familiar enough with the data to tell whether this morning’s uptick was unusual or not.