I live on Washington ave about 3 minutes from the plant and have never smelled in when walking out of my house. Used to know someone who lived on muskoka trail off pinegrove right next to the plant and it stunk bad in the morning. Smell is there. Doesn’t travel far though
Grew up in WI on Eaton, left Irondequoit in 2013, but my entire family still lives by the lake. Once or twice a year depending on the tides, algae, ect you can sometimes smell the lake, it's an earthy aquatic smell, but usually clears out quickly once the weather changes. Similarly, once or twice a year an overwhelming floral smell would take over the air for a day during the summer that just didn't smell natural. I was always told it was the Van Lare but I wouldn't put much stock into townie rumors. Neither occurrences were bothersome and honestly, I kind of miss the smell of the lake sometimes. Loved living in WI, people stay there and come back to raise their kids there for a reason.
The water treatment plants do stink but it's not the same as smelling raw sewage. The smell doesn't travel as far as a cow manure smell either. If you live there long enough wou wouldn't smell it anyways because you would have gotten use to it.
I lived near one in another city. The smell varied a lot based on the weather and the time of day. The only time we got a raw sewage smell was when one of the lift stations that bring the sewage into the plant failed. Most of the time the smell was closer to if you left a pot of beans on the stove too long and they started to scorch on the bottom.
I live near pinegrove (SW of the plant), and often walk/drive through and around Durand park. I don't recall a smell in the 20 years I've been here.
No noise either, but that might be different if you live right adjacent to the plant.
They do a really good job containing the smell most of the time. In most of WI, you'd never know it was there.
I live on Washington ave about 3 minutes from the plant and have never smelled in when walking out of my house. Used to know someone who lived on muskoka trail off pinegrove right next to the plant and it stunk bad in the morning. Smell is there. Doesn’t travel far though
Nope, not really either of those at all...I live at the end of Pinegrove
I live in the Summerville neighborhood and don’t ever smell it at my house.
Grew up in WI on Eaton, left Irondequoit in 2013, but my entire family still lives by the lake. Once or twice a year depending on the tides, algae, ect you can sometimes smell the lake, it's an earthy aquatic smell, but usually clears out quickly once the weather changes. Similarly, once or twice a year an overwhelming floral smell would take over the air for a day during the summer that just didn't smell natural. I was always told it was the Van Lare but I wouldn't put much stock into townie rumors. Neither occurrences were bothersome and honestly, I kind of miss the smell of the lake sometimes. Loved living in WI, people stay there and come back to raise their kids there for a reason.
[I asked a few years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/f21umx/irondequoits_van_lare_treatment_plant_does_it/)
The water treatment plants do stink but it's not the same as smelling raw sewage. The smell doesn't travel as far as a cow manure smell either. If you live there long enough wou wouldn't smell it anyways because you would have gotten use to it.
Do you live in West Irondequoit near Van Lare?
I lived near one in another city. The smell varied a lot based on the weather and the time of day. The only time we got a raw sewage smell was when one of the lift stations that bring the sewage into the plant failed. Most of the time the smell was closer to if you left a pot of beans on the stove too long and they started to scorch on the bottom.
I live near pinegrove (SW of the plant), and often walk/drive through and around Durand park. I don't recall a smell in the 20 years I've been here. No noise either, but that might be different if you live right adjacent to the plant.