Odor Threshold News Today

An odor monitoring system that can sniff out smelly chemical compounds is Des Moines' latest venture to stifle its decades-long stench problem.

Ranger, it can be grounds for citation. >> i am not smelling anything. >> reporter: can i try it? >> sure. >> reporter: so far, he hasnt had to give any citations for marijuana. it typically doesnt exceed the odor threshold on the nasal ranger. >> it is a discernible odor. >> reporter: he can help cannibis cullty va tors. some are urging for tighter controls. >> we would like to see it regulated here. it needs to be regulated elsewhere as well. >> it looks funny. it is hard to say all of that wi...

Jurisdictions have different rules and they dont go far enough. they would like to see the state legislature address this issue and set a lower odor threshold. >> what kind of pifine could yo pay? >> the fines range up to hundreds of dollars. if there are multiple complaints within a short duration. using that nasal ranger, they havent exceeded the odor threshold. there are some places where it has registered but it still isnt exceeding that threshold that will result in a fine. have oftentimes,...

That the odor threshold for this chemical is very low. what that means in general terms is where the cdc has deemed this chemical to be safe at a certain level, it has to go almost 1,000 times below that level in order for the smell not to be. this is also in addition to the case issue that is at hand. people have a natural instinct like all of us, our water is not supposed to smell. so when you feel and smell black licorice in the water, people feel that the chemical is still in it, although in...

Thursday is when they notified our emergency spill hotline which is set up for when chemicals enter a waterway. >> do they even know how long that hole was there? >> i dont know if the company has said anything about that. the department of environmental protection believes that because this chemical has a very low odor threshold, doesnt take very much for folks to smell it, that the leak may have developed roughly around the time people started complaining of the odor and it was the odor compla...