Bay Area’s ‘Sugar Town’ overtaken by ‘swamp gas’
“Sugar Town” residents have been complaining about an acrid “rotten egg” smell that’s been clouding the air in the northwest Contra Costa County town of Crockett this month, government officials said. The county’s health services department said that hydrogen sulfide — also known as “sewer gas,” “swamp gas” and “stink damp” — has been emanating from the Crockett Wastewater Treatment Plant due to an unspecified operational issue. The plant, which processes sewage from the local community and sewage from the California and Hawaiian Sugar refinery, is owned by C&H and has since been investigated by local authorities.
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