{"id":19344,"date":"2017-11-05T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=19344"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:58:23","slug":"update-chemical-smell-schools-and-industry-on-clay-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/update-chemical-smell-schools-and-industry-on-clay-road.html","title":{"rendered":"Update: Chemical smell, schools, and industry on Clay Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nMaybe ask the company that adopted Clay Road?\r\nResponse yesterday<\/a> from the EMA Lowndes facebook page<\/a>:\r\n

\r\n

\r\nHi, as a point of clarification emergency personnel\r\nresponded to reports of an odor; however, after thorough\r\ninvestigation no evidence of a chemical leak or release could be\r\nidentified or confirmed. As a precaution, the Board of Education\r\nproperty was accessed by responders. No evidence of contamination\r\nwas present. A follow up visit to the area later this morning\r\nreports the odor was no longer present.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThank you, EMA Lowndes, for responding, and on a weekend, too.\r\n

\r\nHowever, people couldn’t get home that night.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"ADM<\/a>\r\n
\r\nAdopt-A-Street ADM, Clay Road north from Howell Road\r\ngoogle street view<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nI still think it would be good to\r\ncheck with nearby industry<\/a>.\r\nMaybe start with\r\n\r\n Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which is just past the school bus in the above google street view,\r\nnorth up Clay Road from Howell Road, past the Adopt-A-Street sign saying ADM.\r\nPerhaps the Industrial Authority could help with that.\r\n

\r\nWhat did Valdosta Utilities have to say?\r\nTheir sewer lines drain the heavy industry up Clay Road,\r\nincluding ADM.\r\nDid anybody test Knights Creek for contamination?\r\n

\r\nThe \r\nVDT story<\/a> promised,\r\n“The Valdosta Daily Times will provide updates as additional information is gathered.”\r\nBut that story has not been updated.\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile, elsewhere a story has appeared and has been updated.\r\nDesiree Carver, Valdosta Today, 4 November 2017,\r\n\r\nREPORTS OF STRANGE ODOR CLOSE PARTS OF CLAY ROAD FRIDAY NIGHT<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n

\r\nFrom Ashley Tye last night:\r\n

\r\n“At 7:10 pm a citizen called 911 to report an unidentifiable\r\nodor in the area of Clay and Howell Roads. According to Lowndes\r\nCounty Emergency Management Director, Ashley Tye, multiple public\r\nsafety agencies are currently conducting an investigation to\r\ndetermine the origin of the odor. As a precaution, citizens in the\r\narea are being asked to remain inside with doors and windows\r\nclosed.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nLowndes County Clerk Paige Dukes said “They rode the area\r\nagain this morning & the odor had dissipated. Still no word on\r\nwhere it might have originated.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAs the area was right at the city limits, multiple agencies\r\nresponded including a GSP helicopter.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThere is still nothing on the\r\nLowndes County\r\n\r\nwebsite<\/a> or EMA Lowndes facebook page<\/a>,\r\nnor on the Sheriff’s website<\/a>\r\nor\r\nfacebook page<\/a>,\r\nnor on\r\nLowndes County Schools\r\n\r\nwebsite<\/a> or facebook page<\/a>.\r\nNor, considering the Valdosta City Limits run right up Clay Road,\r\non the Valdosta Police Department\r\nwebsite<\/a>\r\nor\r\nfacebook page<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe ask the company that adopted Clay Road? Response yesterday from the EMA Lowndes facebook page: Hi, as a point of clarification emergency personnel responded to reports of an odor; however, after thorough investigation no evidence of a chemical leak or release could be identified or confirmed. As a precaution, the Board of Education property […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,15,73,449,178],"tags":[5312,10020,10019,679,462,2177,10018,9420,8704,8705,8701,8702,620,12,7,3059,8731,2877,652,8767,6,2900,3455,8517,8742,8749,7920],"class_list":["post-19344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education","category-safety","category-transportation","category-vlcia","tag-adm","tag-adopt-a-street","tag-archer-daniels-midland","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-ashley-tye","tag-bus","tag-chemical","tag-desiree-carver","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-leak","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-schools","tag-safety","tag-school","tag-sheriff","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-daily-times","tag-valdosta-today","tag-valdosta-utilities","tag-vdt","tag-vlcia","tag-vlda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-520","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19349,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19344\/revisions\/19349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}