Lifelong Deer Park resident, Ron Anderson, said recurring bad smells shouldn’t make people feel discouraged; he wants them to feel fired up. He said just because you live around the industry, doesn’t mean you should live a life negatively impacted by it.
“It will come and hang around until 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and you just won’t want to go outside,” Anderson said.
Ron said in the last handful of years, the smells and odors have been more frequent in his community.
“You just can’t stand the smell,” Ron said.
Ron has called, reported, and raised the alarm but says there’s been no results from his efforts.
“When we do smell it, I think about calling, but then again I think about the history I’ve had with calling,” Anderson said.
Anderson is not alone. Others have raised the alarm online this week about a particularly chemical smell.
ABC13 reached out to Texas City and Galveston County’s offices of emergency management and Harris County Pollution Control. They all said they’ve been getting reports this week about a concerning smell, but no one can tell where it’s coming from.