Odor complaints by month
The Fall Odor Season has begun. 246 Odor complaints in September. These complaints were all made during only 19 days by 147 unique email addresses.
2019,2019 and 2020 compared
This chart shows the smelliest time of year is the fall. Summers months have the least odors. It looks like the 2020 odor season may be starting a little early; hope this isn’t a sign of things to come.
problematic days
If there are 10 or more odor complaints on the same day … the odor is real!
In September there were 10 days (i.e.- every 3rd day) where 10 or more families were impacted enough to submit an odor complaint.
Good Days - no odors
In September, the wind blew away from Northville for a significant period of time which resulted in 11 days with zero odor complaints.
This demonstrates that residents making complaints are trustworthy. They do not make complaints when there is no odor.