SCDHEC orders New Indy to fix level of air contaminants causing four-month rotten smell Few answers after four months of foul smell in Lancaster By Morgan Newell | May 7, 2021 at 6:30 PM EDT - Updated May 7 at 6:30 PM YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) - South Carolina health leaders have issued an order for paper mill New Indy to fix their level of air contaminants that have been EPA-confirmed as the cause of four months of a rotten smell in several counties. It has been four months since South Carolinaâs Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) got the first few reports of the rotten egg smell in Lancaster and York counties.