Strange smell

[coombro]

Thats a dish called kimshi

[FlyLie]

Any oil/gas wells in the general area? Could be natural gas (sulphur) coming to the surface; ....talk to BP On the serious side, we have an area on the CR which does this.

[ronzo]

When plants rot they emit a gas called hydrogen sulfided. It smells like rotten eggs.

[IronWorker]

If you had that Japanese guy who caught that big huge world record fish you could have handed him the grass and he would have ate some of it and then told you exactly what the deal was.

[BurleyDog]

When plants rot they emit a gas called hydrogen sulfided. It smells like rotten eggs.

Here is the winner. When something decomposes in a low oxygen environment (like say underwater) the microbes that break it down produce hydrogen sulfide. This is the same smell they put in natural gas so that you can detect a leak.

[MagikSmallie]

Any oil/gas wells in the general area? Could be natural gas (sulphur) coming to the surface; ....talk to BP On the serious side, we have an area on the CR which does this.

I don't think it could be Natural Gas. Natural Gas is ordorless until they put it in the lines. they add mercaptan (Spelling?) to the gas to give it the odor so leaks can be detected, so if its a natural seep then there would be no smell. However, if its an active line leaking then yes you can get that smell from gas.

My guess would be the Hydrogen Sulfide as suggested above.

[Tim_T]

Any oil/gas wells in the general area? Could be natural gas (sulphur) coming to the surface; ....talk to BP On the serious side, we have an area on the CR which does this.

Are you talking about just upstream from the Burkesville bridge? Good lord that place stinks when you are there in the summer.