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,%W <br /> VIEWPOINTS Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1996, Tracy Press <br /> "Worst stench , . . permeates our homes' <br /> Dear Editor: I read with interest If we leave our windows.open at able of housing. When the dairy is in <br /> the front page article in the night for fresh air, we are rudely full operation, unless they find some <br /> July 26 issue of the Tracy awakened at approximately 5 a.m. by way to minimize the odor, living here <br /> Press. This concerned the "sickening' the worst stench that permeates our will be intolerable. <br /> smell from the Heinz plant dumping homes, from one end of the club to the Most of our community of senior <br /> and the fact that the environmental- other. citizens will have to try to sell their <br /> health inspectors could find no odor This is a daily occurrence, not a little homes p get away from the <br /> nor anything else wrong. seasonal one,as the Heinz dum in is. stench. These people have moved here <br /> to live out their last days in peace and <br /> I live at the San Joaquin River Club, The smell.is the same you get when <br /> a rural residential area of 400 homes you pass the Harris Beef Ranch along safety. They will notable to sell <br /> their,homes under thesee <br /> established in 1939.This past year,the Interstate 5, but you cannot drive conditions. <br /> county issued a permit for a dairy, through this and get the smell out of I am sorry that the almighty dollar <br /> capable of housing 3,000 or more our home. can wipe out a neat little community <br /> cows, less than a mile upwind of our y that has existed for over 50 years. <br /> homes. We were not notified prior to The environmental-health inspector Emma Sarvey, <br /> the issuance of the permit, and the says it is a "state-of-the-art dairy." At 24-year resident <br /> county now says we will have to live the present time, they have only a San Joaquin River Club <br /> with it. fraction of the cows that they are cap- Tracy <br /> `Whew!' <br /> Dear Editor: I am a member of <br /> theSan Joaquin River Club. <br /> I am bitterly complaining <br /> about the stench, which is horrible, <br /> from the new dairy on Kasson Road. <br /> We are unable to open our windows <br /> nights. <br /> I think the county supervisors <br /> should check this out. <br /> Talk about air pollution—whew! <br /> Rosalie Coss <br /> San Joaquin River Club <br /> Tracy <br />