SMITH COUNTY — Homeowners in one Tyler-area neighborhood are concerned about a strong odor. KETK reports a water company and pond are nearby, and some people are concerned about their water supply. Gina Adams lives off County Road 2265 and Highway 31. She says, “When you breathe (the smell) in, you can feel your throat burning, and it smells almost like a burning tar mixed with sulphur. It smells just like a very strong chemical; it’s horrible. We’ve contacted 911, they’ve sent out the fire department, and they basically told us they couldn’t do anything.”<\/p>\n
The environmental crimes officer in Smith County confirms there has been some illegal dumping going on at the Basic Energy Services plant, an oil well down the road from Adams’s house. Adams says she’s witnessed some suspicious trucks dumping something in the middle of the night. She doesn’t know what they were dumping, but Adams believes it was a deadly chemical called hydrogen sulphide. <\/p>\n
The environmental crimes officer turned over the investigation to the Texas Railroad Commission to do an investigation. The commission says, “Our Kilgore district office sent out an inspector to the commercial disposal well facility, Basic Energy Services, on Tuesday, Jan. 22. This inspector found no violations of Railroad Commission rules. Additionally, the RRC inspector checked the hydrogen sulfide levels and found no detectable levels.” But the question remains: what is that smell? Whatever it is, people in the area remain concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY — Homeowners in one Tyler-area neighborhood are concerned about a strong odor. KETK reports a water company and pond are nearby, and some people are concerned about their water supply. Gina Adams lives off County Road 2265 and Highway 31. She says, “When you breathe (the smell) in, you can feel your throat … Continue reading Residents Concerned about Odor in Their Neighborhood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 05:03:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236314"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236533,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236314\/revisions\/236533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}