Letters: Is dump causing smell?

I read with interest your article on the DCLM landfill (Largest landfill in the southern hemisphere, Courier, June 2). Thank you for bringing an important issue to the public attention. I see that you are doing a follow up story and have some questions.
Do you know that people in Prince’s Grant estate near the dump complain that from time to time that they get a smell of rotten eggs? Kids in the area call it “Stinky Stanger”. What are DCLM doing as a company to manage the odours and is there no risk of residents suffering the same health impacts as those living in Shongweni? What do the air monitoring statistics show? What types of hazardous wastes are dumped here? Where does the toxic effluent go to for disposal? I suppose it is also going into our ocean.
As a regular holiday maker to the North Coast, I am sure I am not alone in wanting to know these answers and would appreciate your journalists looking into this.
TARA BARNARD
Gauteng

I suspect PG may be getting a whiff of ‘Mandeni fragrance’ from the Sappi pulp paper mill. But we will ask – Editor.