Bizarre! Unbearable smell of unknown origins in a Hungarian town!

Index.hu reports that their readers have been complaining about an awful smell in the town of Hatvan:

“People cannot stand the stench on the streets and it has become impossible to air out the houses. We have been collecting signatures, but no one is doing anything about this very unpleasant problem. The local government and the environmental authorities are just pointing fingers at each other” says Ildikó, then adds that they do not even know where the smell comes from.

She thinks it smells like burning trash; many Facebook posts suggest the putrid smell comes from wastewater. It is an even bigger mystery that the stench comes and goes and no one knows why. This has been going on like this for years.

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Heol.hu reports that the company operating on the former power plant might be responsible for the stinky mystery. They have tried a few things before to contain the smell. They have tried building 6 meter high walls around the sewage sludge pool to make it harder for the smell to travel to residential areas. The manager, Andor Nagy says that they are only partly responsible for the smell, since there could be other sources as well.