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Inspired by the stench that has wafted into the town of Washington on several occasions over the past six months, local citizens have arranged a special meeting on January 16 with air pollution control personnel, to discuss ways of monitoring and correcting the smelly problem.
At Monday’s meeting of the Rappahannock supervisors, Peter Kramer asked the board to send a representative to the session. The Washington cabinet maker said that since his return to the county from New England this summer, he’d noticed increased air pollution in Washington, Flint Hill and Huntly.
“What do you think it is?” asked supervisor chairman E. P. Luke.
“If I had to guess, I would say Front Royal,” Kramer answered.
“You mean that stink that comes down here?” Luke said, noting that increased elevation of smoke stacks in Front Royal has enabled the jet stream to carry smells from the town’s industrial plants all the way to Washington, D. C.
When the north wind blows, he added, the stench is carried over the mountains at Chester Gap into Rappahannock
County. AI’ve smelt it since I’ve been here.”
(On December 12, Kramer wrote to the Air Pollution Control Board, complaining about “the rotten stench that continually abounds in Front
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