Seattle Stinks

When Seattlest charged out of our door this morning with bare minutes to get to the bus stop we noticed an unfamiliar stench to the air. Seattlest being Seattlest we tried to remember the last time we'd laundered our shirt and then looked around for a hippie. Once the bus doors closed, though, we stopped being able to detect anything unusually malodorous and immersed ourself into our book/iPod/daily affirmation until we got downtown. Damn if it didn't stink down there too!

There's a stink going on. A funk, an odor, a taste unpleasant to the air, a foul aroma spoiling our monthly sunny day. The LJ folks ask the question: "A strange question - has anyone else noticed that the city sort of stinks this morning?" and the crack staff of reporting professionals at the Seattle Times lay down the answer:

The unit that controls the odor of sewage at the Lake City regulator station failed, causing stinky air to seep through the city's manholes and into the air.

The station, located on North 40th Street between the University Bridge and the University of Washington, carries sewage from north Seattle near Matthews Beach through pipes that eventually end up at the county's wastewater treatment plant in Magnolia.

Nothing to see here folks. Just a simple failure of our anti-stink technology. It is interesting to know that one anti-stink machine stands between us and a city that smells like a sewer, though.