What is the foul-smelling sludge being sprayed north of Birmingham?
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
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But it smells like death.
The odor of degrading food processing waste wafts through the car’s air conditioning vents driving along Mt. Olive Road and slaps you in the face when you open your car door near the old Knob No. 1 mine site, a surface coal mine that closed in 2010.
The reclaimed mine about 20 miles north of Birmingham is being sprayed this week with waste from an undisclosed food processing facility by an Arkansas-based company called Denali Water Solutions. There aren’t many neighbors near the rural site, surrounded by a handful of inactive coal mines, but the ones there are raising their own stink about the odors emanating from the site.