It’s not unusual for residents in Nānākuli’s Princess Kahanu Estates to smell something funky in the air.
Their community, just off Farrington Highway on Oʻahu’s West Side, is virtually surrounded by potential sources of bad smells. Farms proliferate farther mauka into the valley; a stream that sometimes needs cleaning flows from the east; a landfill sits on the other side of the stream.
But residents say recently the air smells different…