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Chicken Manure Mistaken For Gas Leak In Rockville
By DAVID OWENS
Courant Staff Writer
11:31 AM EST, March 7, 2008
VERNON
What many thought was a natural gas leak kept emergency crews and gas company workers busy Friday morning in Rockville.
About 7:30 a.m. police began to field calls from people in the center of Rockville west to the Windsorville Road area reporting the gas odor. The smell was so strong officials at St. Joseph School on West Street considered evacuating the school, said Vernon police Lt. Brian Smith.
"Everytime the wind shifted direction, we got a rash of calls," Smith said.
After two hours of checking, gas company workers determined the odor was not natural gas, but chicken manure.
The manure had apparently been spread on a field in Ellington and the odor was wafting over into the northern fringes of Rockville, Smith said.
"All these urban homesteaders, they come out to the country and these smells are foreign to them," Smith said.
By DAVID OWENS
Courant Staff Writer
11:31 AM EST, March 7, 2008
VERNON
What many thought was a natural gas leak kept emergency crews and gas company workers busy Friday morning in Rockville.
About 7:30 a.m. police began to field calls from people in the center of Rockville west to the Windsorville Road area reporting the gas odor. The smell was so strong officials at St. Joseph School on West Street considered evacuating the school, said Vernon police Lt. Brian Smith.
"Everytime the wind shifted direction, we got a rash of calls," Smith said.
After two hours of checking, gas company workers determined the odor was not natural gas, but chicken manure.
The manure had apparently been spread on a field in Ellington and the odor was wafting over into the northern fringes of Rockville, Smith said.
"All these urban homesteaders, they come out to the country and these smells are foreign to them," Smith said.
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