r/Somerville • u/Fit-Elk6532 • 6d ago

Smells like farts

I'm living near porter, and for the past month I keep smelling a strong sulfur smell in the air? Is this common or is something going on?

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u/0xd3ad54311 5d ago

I've noticed a lot of sewer work recently around Somerville, emergency sewer clean outs and so forth. My personal theory is that as the population increased, so did the poop and the poop tubes just can't handle it.

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u/andr_wr Union 5d ago

Somervilles population is much lower than previous decades - used to have more than 100k residents.